Nick Harkaway has one of the most attractive author websites I’ve ever seen. It is so pretty (and clever) it momentarily distracted me from the awesome post he has written calling on publishers to get their act together on eBooks.
It strikes me that from an industry point of view, you can’t just throw books-as-files at the world and let someone else take care of the rest. You need to innovate, to own the dialogue – and not because you have the power of a big corporation, but because people are hanging on your every utterance, the way they do with Apple. You need to be vertically integrated. You need multiple revenue streams. You know all this better than I do…
Check out eBooks II: The Epistle to the Publishers (via INDEX // mb)
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