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Continue reading →: Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 06/04/2009
Eoin Purcell There is a boycott going on of Amazon Kindle books that are priced over $9.99. Kassia has a good analysis. Here if:book and the Arts Council of England have an interesting but ultimately (in my mind) useless project to publish an illuminated book for the digital age. I…
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Continue reading →: A day for fighting
Eoin Purcell Strange concurrence Looking over the events for the day I was struck by the prevalence of violent events that happened today> I thought a flavour of them might serve to show what I mean: The Battle of Taierzhuang was in full flow in 1938. This battle although far…
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Continue reading →: Google Books & The Orphan Works Problem
Eoin Purcell Some People Who Are Smarter Than Me Have been doing a great deal of thinking about the Orphan Works part of the Google Book Search Settlement. Mike Shatzkin has a few posts on the issue. A slightly different take on the Google settlement hits onto the idea that…
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Continue reading →: Amazon’s new terms
Eoin Purcell All’s fair On the face of it, Amazon’s latest ploy is a fairly decent deal for publishers. For only 2% extra discount you can get paid after 15 days. That’s wonderful, it reduces the time between selling a book and receiving the cash and hopefully therefor makes a…
