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Go Read This | Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future | Digital Book...
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...
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On Publishing Economics & Cannibalism
UPDATE: The Sunday Times (Ireland) has picked the post up in an edited version for their Think Tank column today. There has been some debate over whether cannibalisation of print sales by digital sales...
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A Problem: Ebook Rights, Small Markets & Divergent Digital Growth Rates
CROSS POSTED AT THE GREEN LAMP MEDIA BLOG The Frankfurt Book Fair this year was an interesting one for me. It crystalized a few of the many ideas that have been bouncing around in my head. Publishing...
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Go Read This | The Evolution of the E-book: When is a Book Not a Book?: Tech...
GigaOm has, I feel, a very simplistic sense of the ebook space. However, at times, that can be a very useful thing, because it sweeps away many of the assumptions that industry folks can make almost...
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On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A …. Backlist Book
There’s a wonderful New Yorker cartoon from a few years ago by Peter Steiner and it captures an essential truth about the anonymity of the internet, about privacy and SO much more. I’m not sure I can...
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Go Read This | Ed Victor sets up publishing imprint
UPDATE: I neglected to include the link to The Bookseller whose original reporting I quote below. The link is now included! As if the signs were not clear enough that the world of trade publishing is...
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No New Normal – The Value Web
For some reason this has been a very hard post to write. It’s a rather strange situation for me as in essence what I’m writing about is really a very basic idea. Maybe it is because I’m afraid that...
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Go Read This | Agents have to do it, but their new service offerings change...
Interesting note from Mike Shatzkin this: Many of the agents, but not Waxman with Diversion, are specifying that their services are only for existing agency clients. That’s a good way of putting a toe...
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On Publishing Mergers & Strategy
I have been mulling the Penguin Random House deal for some time now. In fact, I wrote most of this post about ten days ago or longer. I’ll be honest enough to admit that my failure to post my thoughts...
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Go Read This | Fast-Paced Best Seller: Author Russell Blake Thrives on...
There’s so much in this piece I have to take two extracts. This quote in particular is incredible: “Being an author is like being a shark, you have to keep swimming or you die,\” he says. “People...
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