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Forbes tackled publishing and Amazon last week
And while I’m loathe to take serious a discussion that begin thusly:
Technology has disrupted every industry. Now, it’s book publishing’s turn.
Archaic beyond belief, it’s an industry that treats its most important asset–the author–badly. Can this go on?
It nevertheless has some decent points to make and is worth reading, [...]

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Over at Shimenawa
Perter Brantley posts his thoughts on books, sharing and the future of books and the value of sharing:
Whatever digital (ebook) books look like in the future, if they do not embody the right to share, in an unrestricted and platform independent manner, they will be poorer things.
I completely agree and commented the [...]

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Sara Lloyd over at the Digitalist (PanMacmillan’s digital team’s blog) has started a really exciting series on the future of publishers. There are some amazing thoughts even in the first one which quite expertly puts the case for all forward looking publishers:
We will need to think much less about products and much more about [...]

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It is going on over at Fidra Books
Vanessa posted a rather honest assessment of Faber’s POD move the other day:
Perhaps I’m being wary for no reason. Perhaps they will just reissue the really obscure titles that don’t have a potentially wide readership. Perhaps they will point out to copyright holders that other [...]

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Booktwo gives us a quick review of Authonomy (have a beta invite myself, will say more soon).
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Michael over at The Digitalist talks about the danger of hype for e-books. (Read the Comments)
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Smashwords is coming. I’ve seen this a bit and talked with the developers. Nice little program.
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You think I’m joking!
But I’m not:
In a ranking of global publishers, the deal will take the combined group to just outside the top five, competing for sixth position with Hachette Livre. Significantly, it will be the only group in the top 10 not to have either a UK or US presence.
See,
Eoin

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Andrew Crawford of my favourite online retailer
Has a blog today over on The Bookseller. What I like about it is the way he happily turns book publishers worries on tehir heads and back again. For instance:
What should worry retailers is that publishers are the market makers: they filter, spot trends, create demand and even [...]

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What a week
And a great ending too. Thursday evening saw me fly from Dublin to Kerry and then driving to Dingle for the launch of Murphy’s Ice Cream Book Of Sweet Things. Kieran has a great pair of posts on the two launches but I thought I’d post some of my own.

I couldn’t be [...]

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