I’m one frustrated ebooker! I recently purchased several books in hardcover (The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt and Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg), which is (supposedly) what the publishers prefer I do. But although I bought hardcover versions for my library, I would like to do the actual reading on my Sony Reader.
Entries Tagged as 'publishers'
Frustration in eBookville: Will There Be a Rubicon for Publishers?
April 13th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion
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Tell Publishers Why You Didn’t Buy A Book
March 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
Lost Book Sales: Every day an author and a publisher lose a sale. These are the stories why. I mentioned this site before. Things have since changed for the worse for readers. Random House has adopted the price-fixing anti-competitive Agency Model. For example, overnight The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo went from about US$5.00 to [...]
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Where have all the publishers gone?
February 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
The following “poem” can be sung to the tune of Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Pete Seeger. Where have all the publishers gone? Since ebooks came to be. Where have all the publishers gone? Since Apple befriended them. Where have all the publishers gone? Steve Jobs fooled every one.
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Publishers, Stop Being Craven, Forge Your Own Future
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
by Eoin Purcell For some time there has been a funny dichotomy in the publishing industry worldwide. On the one hand publishers have decried the growing influence of powerful tech companies from outside the industry. Google, Amazon, Apple all fall into that category (Amazon aside from being an impressive online retailer is also an amazing [...]
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Are Publishers Liable For Lost eBooks If Borders Dissolves?
February 1st, 2011 · 9 Comments · opinion
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me those of the Big 6 publishers who have been playing the price-fixing Agency Model racket have left themselves wide open for class-action lawsuits if their “agents” go out of business and lose the eBooks of their customers. Traditionally, this has been the sales chain in [...]
When publishers won’t sell, piracy emerges
January 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters “I think what leads to rampant piracy is not meeting emergent demands.” – Brian O’Leary That is the most concise statement I’ve read so far about an issue that constantly bothers me, which is that content companies create their own piracy problems. They do it by not moving fast enough, or by [...]
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Amazon’s new lending feature is probably going to anger some publishers
December 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters When it comes to Kindle features, Amazon tends to follow the aphorism that it’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission. This strategy doesn’t always work–see the text-to-speech controversy–but it helps give Amazon the element of surprise in the marketplace. With that in mind, I have a feeling that some indie publishers are [...]
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Why are big publishers ignoring interactive picture books?
December 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters Yesterday Scholastic listed 10 trends in children’s lit for 2010, and #6 is in alignment with an October New York Times article on the decline in picture books. From the Scholastic list: “Publishers are publishing about 25 to 30 percent fewer picture book titles than they used to.” From the Times article: [...]
Publishers don’t know how much they’re making on ebooks, and other neat facts
December 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · surveys & polls
Aptara released the results of a survey today. They surveyed a group of 600+ publishers on the various things they’re doing with ebooks. If you want, you can find the complete report here. There are a bunch of interesting details in this report, like more of the respondents prefer the iPad over the Kindle (with [...]
Google Books now in talks with UK publishers
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
You may have read the post in The Bookseller yesterday about how Google Books signed a deal with Hachette Livre to digitize their out of print backlist: Hachette Livre has come to an agreement with Google that will see the giant search engine digitise the publisher’s out of print books in France, bringing to an [...]
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