[Those fighting to save librairies and the jobs of professional librarians will find this a valuable line of argument.] Survey Reveals Librarians Second Only...
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 7, 2012 4:43 pm
[This looks like a valuable new service for authors and small publishers (maybe big ones too). It can give an indication of interest level from fans before...
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 8, 2012 3:46 pm
[Alistair Burtenshaw, director of the London Book Fair, reports on the Yale Publishing Course on Leadership Strategies for Book Publishing. In a short article...
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Dave
bleepthisagain
Aug 9, 2012 5:36 pm
... My only reason for suggesting a limited term was to make orphan works more accessible. Please note that I originally suggested that such limit would only...
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joseph h
joe9438
Aug 10, 2012 1:08 am
... Dave, My difficulty is not that I don't understand your points, nor that I am unaware of the changes that have been happening for the past two decades, and...
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Dave
bleepthisagain
Aug 10, 2012 2:36 pm
... Agreed. An observation - institutions change slowly in a stable environment, it is only when it is stressed by rapid that it evolves or dies. None of these...
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joseph h
joe9438
Aug 10, 2012 5:54 pm
... <snip> ... If one looks at the Big Six in New York the sense of conservatism is very strong. But the industry as a whole has changed and evolved quite ...
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Barbara Tucker
btucker8
Aug 11, 2012 2:59 pm
... YES and YES I was a fool and purchased DRM books from Amazon before the Kindle. Remember Mobipocket? They were purchased by Amazon. And everything was...
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Brenna Lyons
sunnie4168
Aug 11, 2012 3:32 pm
I don't use DRM, save where I have no choice in the matter, but I find your attitude rather presumptious. No offense, but most authors I know DON'T have the...
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Barbara Tucker
btucker8
Aug 12, 2012 4:54 am
... Since you are the first author I have seen who has made a statement like this it I rather doubt that the majority of authors agree with you. I don't treat...
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auwg
Aug 12, 2012 5:00 am
Where did you get the idea that authors are in any way responsible for DRM on ebooks? Better lose all that misguided attitude and open your eyes a bit. Authors...
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Brit Blaise
judiorjade2002
Aug 12, 2012 3:38 pm
"Since you are the first author I have seen who has made a statement like this it I rather doubt that the majority of authors agree with you." Count me as...
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Brenna Lyons
sunnie4168
Aug 12, 2012 3:39 pm
You probably don't talk to as many authors and industry professionals as I do. I'm on in excess of 50 lists and a handful of industry organizations, for...
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 12, 2012 3:39 pm
[It has always been difficult to assess actual levels of piracy; pirates don't, after all, stand up to be counted. So anything that helps understanding must be...
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Beth Young
byoungmpinet
Aug 13, 2012 2:19 am
I'm not arguing with any of these points--I know that many (most?) authors have no choice about DRM and that publishers often require it, and for ...
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Brenna Lyons
sunnie4168
Aug 13, 2012 4:09 pm
AMEN to all of that. I keep wondering what a realistic timeline is for enough of the TOR-type experiments to succeed before the majority of the Big Five (HQ...
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fire471
Aug 14, 2012 3:35 am
Hi, has anyone had experience with getting reviews after using KDP select's Kindle 'free days'? I've heard that readers will often wait months before reading...
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Victor Brodt
brodtstuff
Aug 14, 2012 3:57 am
xx,xxx downloads; three months later with request at end of book, w link. 2 or three reviews, all lower ratings than any other I ever had. Not sure I ever...
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merwie
fire471
Aug 14, 2012 4:05 pm
Hmm, not very encouraging news! Thank you for sharing. I had about 3700 downloads and so far, not a single review. But it's my first novel and I've got a...
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 15, 2012 2:34 pm
[I have long cautioned against jumping to conclusions on statistics. The figures here are very interesting and should certainly be added to a pubisher's...
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 15, 2012 2:36 pm
[A reminder that publishing incorporates intellectual discussion. This is a reminder, too, of the ferment of ideas during The Enlightenment, in which...
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 15, 2012 2:37 pm
[Here is a challenge to the DoJ to prove its statements, as well as raising the question about the market differences between ebooks and physical ones....
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Joseph h
joe9438
Aug 20, 2012 4:01 pm
[The DoJ case takes on the air of a mystery thriller. Here questions of Amazon's role in the case look serious and suggest distortion of justice, and the...
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Kathy.
rappaho
Aug 21, 2012 12:28 am
Hi all, For those who do not take the PW: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/51220-publishers-weekly-webcasts.html...
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Darrell Bain
biscuitbain
Sep 2, 2012 3:46 pm
The September Bainstorming is now live at http://www.darrellbain.com/ Subjects this month: Changing Opinions, Food trucks and Junk Food with Food Stamp Card,...
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joseph h
joe9438
Sep 3, 2012 12:31 pm
[Even for big organisations the cost and energy involved in big legal cases take their toll. Little else can explain Apple's failure to defend the agency...
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Bill Amatneek
billa16...
Sep 21, 2012 1:18 am
In the olden days - this was before your time - the big publishers would release a book in hardback, and then a year or so later, the paperback, at a lower...
Supposedly by adding the file <com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml> to the META-INFO directory, and modifying the options for spread, portrait or landscape,...
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auwg
Sep 26, 2012 5:21 am
Porn, spam, get-rich-quick-with-ebooks, and similar. I spent close to an hour cleaning out blatant and suspicious stuff from the File and Links areas. They...
