For people who might not follow this story all ready, here is a brief recap for you:
1. Amazon’s Kindle ruled the ebook market despite limited competition from a few other companies like Sony and Barns & Noble.
-It seemed that Amazon liked selling most ebooks for about $9.99 even though publishers wanted to sell ebooks [...]
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Amazon V. Apple, some simple initial thoughts…
Tor.com, Cory Doctorow, & the return of serialized sci-fi.
Recently I found out via twitter that Cory Doctorow is offering his new novel “Makers” for free, which is nothing out of the ordinary, Doctorow has made all of his books 100% freely available through the web for many years now. However, what makes this new novel titled “Makers” different is the distro method which [...]
Interactive books, and stories.
Today I was reading the Arts section of the New York Times web site, and I found this story by Noah Berger about an interesting sort of “interactive novel” which reminded me of Penguin Book’s we tell stories project that won Web Award at SXSW this year.
PLENTY of authors dream of writing the [...]
Change in Publishing (is not the same or = to) the “death” of publishing, or the book!
Today I saw a link to a great blog post that was sent out on Twitter by The Book Oven. The post was writen by Mr. Richard Eoin Nash who works at a very wonderful indie publisher called Soft Skull Press.
Correction: It was pointed out the Nash no longer works at Soft Skull. [...]