When they’re illustrated to better explain, such as showing you how to knit a stitch or make a candle or a piece of jewelry, wouldn’t a video be a better option most of the time?
Somebody please tell me the path to survival for the illustrated book business - The Sh... - 0 views
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Books are illustrated for two reasons: beauty or explanatory purpose, more the latter than the former.
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But the illustrated books are in the single-digit percentages most of the time, with some of the more successful categories in the very low double-digits.
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How publishers gave Amazon a stick to beat them with - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views
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A big part of that control stems from Amazon’s ownership of the Kindle, the leading e-book reader, and that books bought for the device have DRM built in. Stross argues that this effectively locks many e-book buyers into the device, since it’s virtually impossible to read Kindle books on other devices
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Publishers — and some authors, especially those who control the Authors Guild, which has fought every attempt by Google and others to open up the book market — have been so obsessed with piracy and locking down their products that they have allowed Amazon to take control of their fate
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even if you take advantage of Amazon’s self-publishing options to avoid having to get a traditional publishing deal, you’ve really just exchanged one corporate overlord for another.
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