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Mar.23.2011
For over a year now, I've been publishing my ebooks through Smashwords, an online company that specializes in allowing indie authors to format and upload their digital books to be sold on different platforms, including the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and the Sony Reader. Although...
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Mar.24.2010
I am a great fan of Apple products, own an Apple computer and an iPhone, but I am not yet convinced that the upcoming iPad will dominate as the reading device of choice for e-books. This does not mean that it won’t find its place for all the other applications, especially games and movies and...
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Mar.08.2010
I’ve just attended a three day conference in Manhattan, titled “Tools of Change”. Its objective was to bring interested parties together to assess the impact of e-books on the future of publishing.
I have been attending various meetings of this sort for the past ten years, ever since I committed my...
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Feb.18.2010
The future of books rests, it seems, with the new digital realm. Blog posts pop up everywhere lately, as do, ironically, a rising tide of newspaper articles on digital publishing. The latest addition to the digital reader marketplace appeared a week or so ago from Apple with its iPad. It...
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Jan.20.2010
This past week a creative writing teacher-friend of mine wrote me about a student of hers who had signed a book of his to a university press, only to discover that the mom-and-pop book stores were refusing to accept his book because of the deep discount the press was asking for.
What gives? my...
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Oct.10.2009
For authors who are elated by Google’s action to digitize all out-of-print books and pay out royalties it is, of course, a welcomed development. Despite the challenges by others who fear Google’s power, the concept of out-of-print digitization is here to stay.
Unfortunately, for those authors and...
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Oct.10.2009
On the surface, the surge in the popularity of e-books and the proliferation of devices on which their content can be read seems like a boon to authors. At first blush the benefits seem too good to be true.
Books will never go out of print, a term that will have to be revised. In fact, all books...
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Oct.10.2009
The e-book is winning. Its ultimate victory was never in doubt.
This does not mean that the printed book will disappear. It will fade out slowly as a viable mass economic enterprise as this new reading technology takes hold. The basic issues were, and still are, about marketing and its twin sister...
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Aug.13.2009
In an article in the August 3rd New Yorker, Nicholson Baker was generally critical of the Kindle, citing among its many deficiencies, its keyboard; the sickly green/gray color of its screen; its sole font (which happens to be one he doesn't much like); the count by "location" rather than...
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May.26.2009
We're only days away from BookExpo, which is happening in NYC this year. I always enjoy this energized book blitz where busloads of galleys or ARCs, whatever you prefer to call them, are for the taking. This year I have to be more prudent on what I snag since I have nowhere to put all the books I...
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