Author: JulietWaters
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Almost everything you need to know about the great e-book war, part 2
I tweeted my last post to Laura Miller at Salon.com. Her reply, “@JulietWaters Good point, but so far they’ve had difficulty w/this because they lack physical stores: http://bit.ly/Yabi7d.” Follow the shortlink and you’ll find Miller’s March article on Amazon’s problem convincing writers that they might want to give up print books, and bookstores that they…
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Almost everything you need to know about the great e-book war
Salon’s Laura Miller has written this great primer on the main issues involved in the U.S. Department of Justice’s anti-trust suit being brought against Apple. But I still think she may be missing a pretty important piece of the puzzle. It’s a complex case, but the gist of it is: did Apple collude with the major publishers…
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New York Times to partner with Byliner and Vook
Some very interesting news yesterday from Digital Book World. The New York Times is partnering with Byliner and Vook to produce a series of e-books. I first heard about Byliner about a year an half ago when I spent a month at the Banff Centre, hanging out with Robert Boynton, director of NYU’s literary reportage…
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