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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 09/08/06

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August 9, 2006

Teleread, a blog advocating ebooks and open DRM has an interesting article in prepation for Barcamp Texas. Worth reading. Here The Publishing Contrarian goes on a Network Blitz. Here In keeping with some of yesterday’s thoughts Lorelle On WordPress (who has also a snazzy new look to her site) has…
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Five steps to a good publisher blog

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August 8, 2006

It has been fun to watch the little discussion about who had the first mainstream publisher blog. So much fun it prompted me to consider what it is that makes a blog so useful for publishers and how, by following a few basic rules, a publisher, mainstream or niche, can…
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On digital rights

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August 7, 2006

Several thoughts have been swimming in my brain concerning ebooks and digital versions of books recently. All the chat about Backlist problems makes you wonder why Authors have been so willing to sign over their digital rights to Publishers who have really shown themselves incapable of selling or exploiting them…
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Target and books

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August 6, 2006

I remember reading somewhere (tried to track it down but cannot) that 75% of people would buy more books (or even one) in a supermarket if the selection was greater. Well I was in Target, Evanston Illinois last night (if you don’t enjoy late night Friday shopping then you would…
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More on the backlist

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August 6, 2006

Sometimes it seems a wave crashes over the web and a topic ripples with it. The amount of comment on books and digitisation and backlists has been huge. I won’t repeat the links but the last few posts address them. I guess one of the important movers in this current…
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Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 09/08/06

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On digital rights

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More on the backlist

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