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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
Interesting research: But even this chart may understate the effects of copyright, since the comparison assumes that the same quantity of books has been published every decade. This is of course not the case: Increasing literacy coupled with technological efficiencies mean that far more titles are published per year in…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Caught between madmen and mercenaries | Studio Tendra
Interesting analysis by Baldur Bjarnason (@fakebaldur), of course, the mistake he makes is to assume the ebook market is in anyway different to any other market: Your suppliers have no concern for the viability of your business and are quite willing to ruin it for little to no personal gain.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Like Dropbox For TV, Chromecast Changes The Game | LinkedIn
Interesting and smart stuff: In the same way that making automobiles smartphone-compatible has proven to be vastly superior (and more cost-effective) than reinventing smartphone functionality and building it into every car’s dashboard, the television set paradigm has just shifted. Why pay extra for expensive technology built into your screen when…
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Continue reading →: A Thought On | Book Publisher Hachette Closes Down In NZ
I have two questions about this that have only occurred to me having read this yesterday; 1) If the book trade is so badly impacted in New Zealand and ebooks are growing so rapidly, why is the sales team being retained, surely they’d be about the first to lose their…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Jeff Bezos Ate My Hamster | FutureBook
Of course Chris McVeigh is making lots of sense here: The idea that Amazon’s raison d’etre is to destroy the publishing industry has been repeated so often that it’s almost become the accepted wisdom in some quarters and as so often, the accepted wisdom is wrong. Amazon are interested in…
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