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Katharina Muders

Editors Only Blog - Business Exchange - 0 views

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  • Katharina Muders on 28 Aug 09
     
    Editors Only is a blog newsletter for publication editors. Topics include: editing, writing, magazine design, editorial management, online publishing, copyright, grammar, and readership surveys.
Yichen Zhu

Tor Publisher Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books - Publishing - io9 - 0 views

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  • Yichen Zhu on 27 Aug 09
     
    With the publishing industry in freefall, what is going to happen to science fiction books? I asked Tor Books senior editor and manager of SF and fantasy Patrick Nielsen Hayden. He thinks the changes coming will be slow but weird.
yunju wang

Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

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  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
  • yunju wang on 08 Sep 09
     
    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
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