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Category Archives: kindle
Apple e-books Price-Fixing
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
The Amazon Effect | The Nation
Great article on Amazon & Publishing. Steve Wasserman May 29, 2012 | This article appeared in the June 18, 2012 edition of The Nation. The Amazon Effect | The Nation.
Startling innovations in democratic publishing.
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
Posted in books, e readers, kindle, Paradigm Shift, Publishing
Tagged amazon bookshelf, authors, bad writing, e-books, Kindle, new york, platforms, publishing, pubslush, tron, wix lounge, writing
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BOOK WARS: A New Hope
I moved into my new place in Washington Heights a few years back. The building on the next block, facing Broadway, is one of those massive, featureless apartment buildings with permanent scaffolding all around and a heavy rotation of store fronts. On the corner there … Continue reading
Posted in books, kindle, Manhattan, new york retail, Paradigm Shift, retail, Uncategorized, Used Book Business
Tagged books, Kindle, used bookstores
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Kindle: The New Slush Pile
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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Tagged books, e-books, Kindle, novels, publishing, reading, slush pile
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