13/06/08

Apt’s links for June 12th

• Digital Prolixity: Don’t be fooled by Apple’s cunning knavery! - Great piece on how Apple *needs* market share to even begin to be able to compete with Google’s android when it comes out later this year. Hence the price drop.
• Monopolizing Reading | Medialoper - “The publishing industry is waiting for its iPod moment, but the music industry has learned a hard lesson: when you cede your business to one retailer, then, well, you’ve lost control.”
• BookExpoCast » Blog Archive » Upfront and Unscripted with Jeff Bezos - Just when I had given up hope on BEA releasing interesting podcasts this year - Bezos and Chris Anderson in discussion. Hope it’s worth it.
• I don’t like any of my ebook readers | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - “Quite by accident I find myself reading three different books on three different readers… The result has been that I’ve found that I really don’t like any of these platforms. A paperback is still a more comfortable way to read.” Teleread.
• Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns? - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog - “Twice in my career, ‘blind’ people e-mailed me, requesting a PDF of one of my books. Both times, I sent one over–and both times, it was all over the piracy sites within 48 hours, free for anyone to download.”
• Age banding will lead to a two-tier book trade | Books | guardian.co.uk - It was getting a bit marginal until Michael Rosen stepped in, “I’ve also found with my children that when, say, they’ve just turned 7, they are much less mature than when they are nearly 8.”
• Will the Future Novel be More than Text on a Page? - ReadWriteWeb - “are publishers barking up the wrong tree with experiments in web publishing that mash books with web technology?”
• Denny Hatch’s Business Common Sense - 7/13/06 - Book Pirates!-Diary of an Amateur Web Sleuth - “…many publishers are congenital liars about book sales and regularly screw authors out of royalties” - this guy has had his father’s books pirated, and really isn’t very happy about it.

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.