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Continue reading →: Go Read This | David Worlock | Paradigm Lost
Reading David’s pieces always brings a fresh perspective. This one is no different. The sector has never seen a company like Google for using its wealth to pursue opportunity outside of its core markets . From YouTube to Android , from DoubleClick to Aardvark , from Google Earth to Google…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | New Thriller Sells More E-Books Than Hardcovers – Digits – WSJ
Interesting, non? Weeks after Amazon.com said that it is now selling more electronic books than hardcovers, a leading book publisher said one of its prominent new titles is generating greater e-book unit sales than hardcover unit sales during its first week on sale. Laura Lippman’s thriller, “I’d Know You Anywhere,”…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | NSFW: A Modest Proposal For Authors Who Abandon Their Publishers — Give Me A Break
Paul Carr is wrong-headed in some places here, just plain wrong in others and generally snide and snarky for little reason (nothing new there I suppose). For all that he makes some valid points. For all of the reasons above, there are really only two types of person for whom…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future | Digital Book World
There is so much more to this article, but this point in particular stood out! In this model, authors stop carving out rights. They hand almost everything over to the publishers and give them maximum flexibility to experiment with format, pricing, sampling, enhancements, and territory – BUT, for a very limited…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | Profile: Garbhan Downey, editor at Guildhall Press | FutureBook
Change in the way we read books is just as inevitable. Consumers love the feel, smell and look of printed books – I know I do. But, spoiled by the advent of e-shopping, they also want unlimited choice, the ability to buy their book any hour of the day or…
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