As I’ve already said, all of my predictions about publishing come from observing other industries that have recently gone digital (in some cases, unwillingly). From that, I’ve projected things like the demise of chain bookstores; their failure slowed but not stopped by stubborn publishers clinging to DRM in a vain effort to make digital books [...]
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I am like some kind of genius at predicting stupidity
Twenty days ago, in this post, I made a prediction: At least one — probably several — big publishers will try to introduce their own ebook reader or ebook format, despite the fact that popular formats exist and are already being whittled down to a few survivors. These things will suck huge amounts of money that [...]
Publishing, Charlotte*, and John*
Today, kids, it’s storytime. But first (and related to the story), I’m going to revisit the Macmillan/Amazon Weekend Event and talk about publishing in general. Now, Amazon came out yesterday with a statement about the whole weekend drama llama. Yes, they attempted to paint themselves, disingenuously, as “fighting for the little guy”, and I rolled [...]
Big Problems, Little Solutions: E-book Publishing Ideas Stolen from Gamers
Yesterday’s post generated a lot of interest. And emotion, yes, but mostly interest. If I can be allowed to revisit that post for a second, I’d like to sum the whole thing up like so: Ignore questions of infrastructure and the costs of ebook file development; those things are tangential to the current issue. What [...]
