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Alphabet Soup 08-Sep-2008

September 8, 2008

Ebook readers: it’s a war story – Times Online Mark Harris finds that DRM, price and limited range of titles all undermine the eReader hype in the UK, but mostly DRM. Small Book Publishers Offered New Technology – The NY Times Getting together with your friends to buy as a group can make some things cheaper,  [...]

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3 thoughts inspired by Martyn Daniels: #3

September 3, 2008

The third thought is about rights, yep, that old nugget again. If I sound like I’m harping on this topic it’s because I’m coming at these issues mostly from an author’s perspective and the rights are the basic unit of tradable property from which authors’ incomes derive. The current rights debates do not stop publishers digitising their [...]

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3 thoughts inspired by Martyn Daniels: #2

September 3, 2008

The second thought is really a looking-at-it-backwards inversion of one Martyn’s comments in his blog post Create Digital First: …we are the start of a digital consumer offer but it is…based on yesterday’s physical cost model, processes and perceptions. Merely taking the finished book and generating a digital rendition that mirrors the physical one is [...]

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3 thoughts inspired by Martyn Daniels: #1

September 3, 2008

Whoa, lots of thoughts and ideas prompted by Martyn Daniels’ blog post Create Digital First. It’s the consumer perception that really counts; after all they pay at the end of the day. Do we know or understand their perceptions on digital pricing, or do we assume we know their views? The UK’s Book Marketing company, [...]

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The Ebook Reader is Not the Future of Ebooks

September 2, 2008

One of my first posts on this blog was an assertion that e-books are about benefits not technology. Despite widespread Kindle adoration and mounting anticipation of the UK release of the Sony Reader, I still believe that ultimately consumers will not take up e-reader devices in game-changing numbers. Certainly, I don’t think device sales will be [...]

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