Category Archives: Books: General
Re-Repost: The Business Rusch: Royalty Statement Update 2012
This is a re-post of a re-post from The Digital Reader. Why? Because they might be able to take down Rusch’s blog and Nate’s blog, but they damn well can’t interfere with the monster that is all of WordPressdotcom! As … Continue reading
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The Word
The Long Game Books are a window to abundance. The dissatisfaction caused by seeing what’s possible, measured against what is, is transformative. That reminded me of something.
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Amazon Locks Up James Bond For A Decade
That image from Casino Royale illustrates what Amazon has just done: Gone all-in on book publishing. Amazon Publishing to Publish James Bond Backlist Amazon.com, Inc. and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd today announced that Amazon Publishing has acquired a ten-year license … Continue reading
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The Worst Article About The eBooks Anti-Trust Suit
It comes from the New York Times today — Book Publishing’s Real Nemesis — and is manufactured by David Carr, who has a shocking ignorance of eBook history, recent history, and is plainly biased towards the status quo. The Justice … Continue reading
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1940 Life Magazine: Maugham, Books
Via the magic of Google Books, from this December 1940 issue of Life magazine, we have a glimpse of W. Somerset Maugham, a book ad, and an ad for the writer’s modern tool: a typewriter. This would be the final … Continue reading
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1939 Life Magazine: Book Ads
Via the magic of Google Books, from this issue of Life magazine (which was half devoted to war and half to domestic diversions), two classic book ads.
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Big Today, Forgotten Tomorrow
Click = big That’s a full-page ad for a novel, from the November 13, 1978 issue of New York Magazine. Publishers would rarely do that. Here it is, 2012, and where are these two? Such obscurity is inevitable for all … Continue reading
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Don’t Believe The eBook Anti-Anti-Trust Spin
Steve Jobs, Price Fixer? Publishers wanted competition among e-readers instead of a Kindle monopoly and worried that the subsidized price established artificially low prices. Boldfaced emphasis added by me. This article seems to be the opening offensive against the Department … Continue reading
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Authors Guild Favors Big Six eBook Price Cartel
Letter from Scott Turow: Grim News The Justice Department has been investigating whether those publishers colluded in adopting a new model, pioneered by Apple for its sale of iTunes and apps, for selling e-books. Under that model, Apple simply acts … Continue reading
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DoJ Finally Goes After Publishing Price-Fixing Cartel
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing The Justice Department believes that Apple and the publishers acted in concert to raise prices across the industry, and is prepared to sue them for violating federal … Continue reading
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