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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Ugly rumours | theBookseller.com
Sara Lloyd is great and to an extent, she is on the money with this column. The problem is that she’s only right to the degree that we accept the current model is permanent. We still have an eye to the future, of course. We still ask each other: “So…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Publishers should set e-book prices, says FutureBook survey | theBookseller.com
I’m a fan of publishers taking charge of their own destiny, especially when the future is so uncertain. That said, I just don’t think publishers have the right skill sets right now to actually set prices for consumer facing products. They need to work very hard to get those skills…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Coming Soon for Kindle – kindle Discussion Forum
Bank Holiday’s being what they are, I was a little slow in seeing this, but it is a pretty interesting move by Amazon. Firstly the fact that they are pushing newspaper and periodical content to the apps suggests to me that their strategy of becoming less and less about the…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Ebooks in public libraries – response to the Publishers Association statement | Voices for the Library
A nice polite and librarian-like smackdown of the PA position from Voices for the Library: Not only does this threaten a service that has proven to be immensely popular with library users, it undermines the effort by libraries to reach out to housebound borrowers, the disabled and those living in…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | PA sets out restrictions on library e-book lending | theBookseller.com
The import of this statement escaped me the first time I glanced at it The Publishers Association has set out an agreed position on e-book lending in libraries that will see library users blocked from downloading e-books outside of the library premises. Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page announced the new guidelines…
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