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New Year's Resolutions For The Book Publishing Industry

Posted at 11:49AM Friday 04 Jan 2013

Publishers should resolve to find new ways to develop more of the intellectual property they own.

Authors should resolve to think deeply about what they want out of their writing lives

Agents should resolve to buckle down and fight for higher ebook royalty rates and more flexibly contracts for their clients

Librarians should resolve to stop screaming about ebooks

Ebook retailers should resolve to find a way to give away e-readers

Readers should resolve to stop complaining so much about the price of ebooks

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