E-book usage on the increase (3)
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (2)
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E-book use is on the rise, says Hi Ebook—summing up a Gartner report. Demand for electronic books, or e-books, has created one of the fastest growing Internet consumer market segments. Research conducted recently by the Gartner Group revealed that one in 300 books read in the USA, and one in 450 books in Europe, are read in the digital format. This is a 38% increase on last year, which in turn experienced 25% growth on ...
Archimag: Google fait réagir Serge Eyrolles, Président du Syndicat National de l’Edition (2)
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Tribes author Seth Godin discusses free content and the publishing industry (13)
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1) We have a fresh slate at HarperStudio. What's your advice? The huge opportunity for book publishers is to get unstuck. You're not in the printing business. The life and death of trees is not your concern. You're in the business of leveraging the big ideas authors have. There are a hundred ways to do that, yet book publishers obsess about just one or two of them. Here's the news flash: that's not what authors ...
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Mahesh CR said:
Ties in very well with another phrase I heard other day, "half-life of content". The life of content does not need to end when the paper is read once and cast away as waste. Publishers need to wake up and milk the content more, but via other business models.
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Jana said:
Advice to publishers from Seth Godin. I think we should listen.
Times Emit: Victoria Barnsley, HarperCollins CEO, on “Publishing: Media’s Last Diehard?” (3)
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Last night Victoria Barnsley, Chief Executive and Publisher of HarperCollins UK International, gave a talk at LSE entitled 'Publishing: Media's Diehard?' This is loose transcription based on my notes, which are very rough rendition what was said. May contain errors. A theme change, appropriate for the night. Publishing standing cusp
Google Book Search Settlement: A Reader's Guide (13)
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As we reported earlier this week, Google has settled the lawsuit brought in 2005 by authors and book publishers regarding its massive book scanning and indexing project. Although the settlement must still be approved by the court and is unlikely to go into effect until sometime late in 2009, commentary has already been flooding the blogosphere. Generally, opinions are split between excitement for users ("better access to zillions of out-of-print books") and suspicion of Google ...
On the Google Book Search agreement (20)
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As many have, I've been eager to understand the terms of the settlement in the AAP/Authors Guild v. Google case (Google Summary, Actual Settlement). After spending some time studying it, here are my thoughts. (4TR: I was not part of any of these settlement negotiations so all this was news to me). IMHO, this is a good deal that could be the basis for something really fantastic. The Authors Guild and the American Association of ...
The Google Settlement - From the Universal Library to the Universal Bookstore (2)
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If you think about it, a universal bookstore is a pretty cool idea. Bookstores are wonderful things. Anyone can walk into bookstore, take a book off a shelf, read in it, decide whether to buy it or forget about it, or get it from the library. The settlement announced today by Google, the Association of American Publishers, and the Authors Guild will in time make it possible for millions of books, currently out of print ...
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Fletch said:
Expect a lot more of this over the coming days. The settlement of the Google Books suit is going to be very influential as our society comes to grips with the copyright morass in which we are currently ensnared.
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