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Shelfie bangs the drum for ebook format shifting
Over at Digital Book World, Peter Hudson, Shelfie’s co-founder and CEO, is profiled advocating format shifting for ebooks. Shelfie’s business model, remember, focuses on equipping readers with an ebook...
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Canadian librarians ask Big Five publishers for more reasonable e-book terms
Canadian newswire service CNW is carrying a press release from Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing. The release links to an open letter (PDF) from the organization, calling on the Big Five...
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Independent report predicts U.S. ebook market growth leaving print far behind
Fed up with those Big Publishing-backed reports of shrinking ebook sales? Fancy some more independent insight into the actual rate of U.S. ebook market growth outside the shrinking domain of the Big...
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David Gaughran Twitter rant fingers Big Publishing-backed book fair scams
Self-publishing savant and scourge of seamy publishing practices David Gaughran has launched a broadside on Twitter against publisher and book fair support of vanity press and promotional scams...
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Simon & Schuster first quarter 2016 sees flat sales, slight ebook decline,...
The latest business results for Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster, disclosed in the first quarter 2016 earnings release for its parent CBS Corporation, show a slight falloff in overall sales and...
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Canadian librarians approach accommodations with more publishers over e-book...
The Toronto Star has a piece on Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Book Pricing, the coalition of 29 Canadian public library systems that has been pressing major publishers for better licensing terms...
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MIT media studies prof on media’s future: Virtual and augmented reality
I attended a couple of fascinating lectures by William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Center for Media, Data and Society, part of...
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New U.S. overtime rules threaten Big Publishing junior labor practices
For all those of you who didn’t already know that New York publishing houses and Big Publishing in general function like a knockoff script from a Whit Stillman movie, here’s fresh proof from the New...
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Color Jane Friedman skeptical about print publishing resurgence
Jane Friedman, a self-publishing guru and formerly one of the powers behind Writers Digest, shares some thoughts on the current trend toward print supposedly coming back. Backing up her analysis with...
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Unlike the Big Five publishers, Disney happily bundles digital media with...
Today I noticed a way in which the Big 5 print publishers are falling behind some companies in the movie industry. Strange as it is to say about a company that’s done so much harm to the state of the...
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