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Judge extends time for Google digital books talks - 1 views

www.reuters.com/...le-books-idUSS1E78E0UW20110915 publishers Google Books
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 16 Sep 11
     
    Nine more months to find a resolution of the issues. Judge Chin is hopeful, bit it's hard to see why.
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Digital Book Distribution: The End of the First-Sale Doctrine? - 2 views

www.americanbar.org/..._mayjune_2011.authcheckdam.pdf
shared by Elizabeth Ralls on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Ralls on 17 Sep 11
     
    Interesting look at e-book copyright issues. (Or, why you can't have my e-book)
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What IF? - 0 views

www.neh.gov/...WhatIf.html digital book reading
shared by Amanda Litvinov on 10 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Amanda Litvinov on 10 Jul 09
     
    Reading will keep getting more dynamic as we veer away from print, says The Institute for the Future of the Book.
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Post-Medium Publishing - 0 views

www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html publishing business model e-publishing freemium
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  • iTunes is more of a tollbooth
    • arnie Grossblatt
      arnie Grossblatt on 27 Sep 09
       
      This is saving the argument by changing the terms mid-stream.
  • much the same with digital books
    • arnie Grossblatt
      arnie Grossblatt on 27 Sep 09
       
      How the same? Claiming it doesn't make it so. And books cost more than 99 cents; ten dollars is not, in Graham's terms, an ignorable event.
  • But though I can't predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that's merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably looking at a loser.
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  • In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?
  • If audiences were willing to pay more for better content, why wasn't anyone already selling it to them?
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BBC News - US court to rule on ReDigi's MP3 digital music resales - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-19842851 copyright drm
shared by Elizabeth Ralls on 05 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Ralls on 05 Oct 12
     
    A ruling on the resale of digital music could have implications for the potential resale of e-books.
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What If the Kindle Succeeds? | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 0 views

www.eff.org/...kindle books copyright drm ebook publishers publishing reader
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 24 Aug 08 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 24 Aug 08
     
    If ebook readers succeed, will publishers be smarter than the music industry in the face of digitization and the web? Some guidelines on how publishers can avoid some of the mistakes of the music industry peers
  • anonymous on 09 Sep 08
     
    Thanks for posting this, Arnie. I've been watching the rise of the Kindle for a while. It popped up at various publishing conferences a few years back. As a reader, it does have some appealing qualities. But, the product is too expensive to go mainstream just yet, in my view. I'd be nervous to schlep a $400 device on international trips with multiple time zones/hotel stays. It's okay if I accidentally leave a paperback behind in a plane or forget it in my hotel room, but you'd have to be careful with a Kindle--it sort of changes my perception of reading materials when I'm traveling.
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Reading in a Digital Age - 0 views

www.theamericanscholar.org/reading-in-a-digital-age publishing e-books reading culture novels Google web 2.0
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  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 May 10
     
    Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary
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The Future of Libraries - Telegraph - 0 views

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shared by Danielle DeVenio on 14 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Danielle DeVenio on 14 Sep 11
     
    Since this was a topic of discussion in last class and we didn't touch on this point....the future of libraries involves sharing their special collections digitally
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Holiday sales could launch e-book readers as mass-market must-haves - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009110404834.html washington post e-readers e-publishing ebooks amazon kindle nook sales
shared by Ryan Holman on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ryan Holman on 05 Nov 09
     
    Brings up interesting point comparing e-readers to digital cameras, rather than mp3 players inasfar as how fast they caught on.
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Time: Bookless Libraries - 0 views

www.time.com/...0,8599,2079800,00.html book culture library ebooks education
shared by Ryan Holman on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Ryan Holman on 12 Jul 11
     
    Apparently in some places, the move to digital has been more pervasive than estimated.
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Digital copyright: Pick a book | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Michael Pogachar on 08 Nov 12
     
    "Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."
  • Elizabeth Ralls on 09 Nov 12
     
    "Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."
  • Elizabeth Ralls on 09 Nov 12
     
    "Consumers seem to reward authors who trust them with their content."
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Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? - 3 views

healthland.time.com/...do-e-books-impair-memory spacial context; infinity; recall; memory
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  • Michael Pogachar on 15 Mar 12
     
    Article on how things like spatial context help people remember things (such as a location of an article in a newspaper), compared with a digital reader that tends to convey a sense of limitless or infinity.
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Digital fictions - 1 views

www.magellanmediapartners.com/...digital_fictions reading ebooks EPUB
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 10 Sep 12
     
    The clash between what e-book retailers are doing and what the e-reading audiences want.
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Bridges Of Virtue: Indie Publishers As The Golden Mean | Digital Book World - 2 views

www.digitalbookworld.com/...-publishers-as-the-golden-mean books publishers indie
shared by arnie Grossblatt on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • You may note my repeated emphasis on the small size of Independent Publishers, and how this can give them the advantage, in some instances, against Big Publishers. The reason for this is that small entities are generally more adaptable than larger ones, and during this period of transition to the New World – where we know the landscape is changing, but not what it is changing into – publishers need to be adaptable in order to survive; in order to thrive, they need to be willing to experiment. Many of the experiments they take when they test the waters will result in failure, but as Independent Publishers have less to lose and more to gain, they will be that much more innovative.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Small indie publishers are likely to be the source of innovation for publishing.
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