I wrote the below post in 6/2010: Well it seems that the dust has settled in the aftermath of the inception of the agency model pricing on ebooks. There were calls (from customers) for boycotts, tagging efforts on Amazon, claims of the end of Amazon monopolies (by publishers/authors) and conflicting ‘fact reports’ by all. I [...]
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What the ebook Agency model did for me
Well it seems that the dust has settled in the aftermath of the inception of the agency model pricing on ebooks. There were calls (from customers) for boycotts, tagging efforts on Amazon, claims of the end of Amazon monopolies (by publishers/authors) and conflicting ‘fact reports’ by all. I have to admit, the whole thing just [...]
READ MORE »The real impact of Macmillan vs. Amazon vs. iPad vs. ebook Customers
So its been a few weeks since the entire kerfluffle over ebook pricing. Readers have gone on in their quest for stuff to read, Amazon prices are slowly edging up and most bloggers and Twitterites have moved on to other subjects. That may be just what the publishers wanted because a year from now, only [...]
READ MORE »Publishers – Get on the ebook train please?
I’ve been following the whole Google Editions progression with interest. As a strict ereader (no DTB), I would love to buy some of my old favorite books. The ones that remained on my shelf no matter what, the ones I never loaned, the ones that I bought again and again over the years, ending up [...]
READ MORE »Kindle Kvetching
Is it me, or does browsing for a Kindle book via the Amazon site pretty much suck? (We’ll talk about searching later–yuck!) And it’s getting worse! I hate to say it, but I’m blaming it on all the self-publishing, both for public domain and original texts. In fact, that’s why I started this blog. I [...]
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