PubIt!: A Case Study in What Marketing Means for Self-Publishers
The launch of PubIt! by Barnes and Noble offers many exciting new possibilities, but also many potential impediments to authors brought about by a truncation of the publishing process.
The launch of PubIt! by Barnes and Noble offers many exciting new possibilities, but also many potential impediments to authors brought about by a truncation of the publishing process.
Legal news covering prisoner access to books, the cost of piracy for book publishers and an infringement lawsuit brought against technology companies due to their use of particular transaction schemes.
A recent doccument purporting to be a leaked copy of Amazon’s proposed App Store Distribution Agreements prompts speculation about some interesting prospects for the app market.
The magazine monocle presents us with a brilliant example of how digital technology can be used to extend the reading experiences we usually get from standard formats like magazines and books.
At a recent Publishers Weekly panel, Paul Aiken, Executive Director for the Authors Guild, was asked to calculate just how much profit publishers make on the sale of e-books. He obliged, took the audience through a tobaggan ride of math and came up with some interesting figures.
