Category Archives: e readers

Apple e-books Price-Fixing

Posted on July 15, 2013 by dorian thornley

NPR article. “Five major publishers were accused of colluding with one another and Apple.” http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/11/201042249/book-news-evidence-overwhelming-in-apple-price-fixing-case  

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Apple, publishers agree to settle EU e-book price-fixing inquiry

Posted on September 19, 2012 by dorian thornley

Apple, publishers agree to settle EU e-book price-fixing inquiry.

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Startling innovations in democratic publishing.

Posted on April 2, 2012 by dorian thornley

A few months ago in the post, Kindle: The New Slush Pile, I talked about how publishers were offering old school deals to authors who had achieved significant sales on their own with the e-books format. Now, rather than wading … Continue reading →

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Kindle: The New Slush Pile

Posted on September 19, 2011 by dorian thornley

It used to be that if you couldn’t get your novel published it was because you probably couldn’t write very well. Discerning editors at the big publishing houses stood between you and the reading public, wading through and rejecting the trite, the clunky and the … Continue reading →

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