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Retail DRM Is an Apple. Library DRM Is an Orange
www.thedigitalshift.com

Library DRM Here to Stay Regardless of What Happens in Retail

Amazon vs. Publishers: The Book Battle Continues
www.businessweek.com

Print-on-demand technology would make it harder for the publishers to justify keeping a large majority of a book's wholesale price

Fair Use: A Narrow, Subjective, Complicated Safe Haven For Free Speech
radar.oreilly.com

Fair Use is like Foie Gras?

Today is not tomorrow (or, how to beat Amazon)
plus.google.com

Amazon's weaknesses. What can publishers and ebook retailers do? What should Amazon do?

Amazon Aren't Destroying Publishing, They're Reshaping It
www.guardian.co.uk

Good publishing is about more than market share

The Sound And Fury Of Book-prize Brouhaha Leaves Literature Nowhere
www.guardian.co.uk

As the fuss surrounding the Pulitzer and Orwell prizes shows, book awards are increasingly more about hype than substance

The strange bedfellows of the growing DOJ opposition
mhpbooks.com

To all but the most rabid (and short-sighted) Amazon fanatics., the government has missed the forest for the trees

Why Facebook Should Buy The Nook From Barnes & Noble
www.huffingtonpost.com

Maybe change name to Facenook

E-book Price-fixing
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

Finding the Best Model for Publishers — and Readers

Publishers Need To Focus On The 19 Percent
www.mediabistro.com

According to the research, 19 percent of U.S. adults own eReaders and 19 percent of U.S. adults own tablets

Something Is Rotten In The State Of E-book Publishing
www.fastcompany.com

The publishing industry has a problem. The old guard haven't innovated. And neither their business models nor their products embrace the digital books revolution.

What Angry Birds Can Teach Publishers About Print
deadtreeedition.blogspot.co.uk

The creator of Angry Birds has been a book publisher for less than five months but already grasps a truth that eludes so many long-time publishers

Consumers Like And Trust Amazon Book Recommendations Despite Industry Jitters
www.digitalbookworld.com

It's all about the algorithm

Fifty Shades Of Grey Thrusts Erotica Into The Mainstream
www.guardian.co.uk

But is it really liberating women?

Are Ebook Authors Unwittingly Losing Sales?
www.teleread.com

ebook authors and publishers tend to view the ebook as a continuous flow document and so disdain the use of running heads

The Publishers And The Apprentice
www.bookbrunch.co.uk

The publishing industry is not addressing its skills shortages and lack of cultural diversity in the right way

Kindle At Waterstones?
www.bookbrunch.co.uk

Is the long-awaited Waterstones ebook offer to be the Kindle, and not the Nook, as had been rumoured?

Mapping The Fictional North
www.guardian.co.uk

The lop-sided geography of northern novels and drama

Children's Author GP Taylor On Why He's Decided To Self-publish
www.dailymail.co.uk

'I can make three-times as much money selling my own work'

The Demise Of Book Publishing As We Know It
www.smartplanet.com

We ain't seen nothin' yet

Seven Things I Think I Think About Book Reviews
americanfiction.wordpress.com

How are book reviews evolving with books in the digital era, and how has technology changed the life of a book reviewer?

Vaizey: Library Cuts, What Library Cuts?
alangibbons.net

You're imagining it

Why Trailblazing Amazon Should Take On The Publishing Establishment
www.guardian.co.uk

Scaremongers who warn of a potential Amazon monopoly conveniently forget that one already exists in shape of legacy publishers

What Amazon's Publishing Arm Means For Retail
www.retail-week.com

Amazon's latest venture – to develop a book publishing operation in the UK – is yet another example of the online giant's ability to think long term

Data Works Better Than Your Gut
www.digitalbookworld.com

Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah is a data-driven publisher


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Amazon Killed The Book Reviewer Star
techcrunch.com

Aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers are every bit as good as professional book critics

Apple Orders 4-inch Iphone Screens
news.cnet.com

Apple has been buying larger-sized screens from its Asian suppliers, according to the latest tipoff received by the Wall Street Journal

Philipp Keel Succeeds His Late Father As Publisher Of Diogenes Verlag
www.diogenes.ch

Succession at Diogenes Verlag

Reading Book Spines . . .
www.shelf-awareness.com

There's an App for That

Bank of England warns of 'storm from Europe' as growth forecast is cut
www.independent.co.uk

Eurozone greatest threat to UK recovery

Steve Jobs: 'The publishers are actually going to withhold their books from Amazon'
tech.fortune.cnn.com

Telegraphing an alleged price-fixing conspiracy 2 years before the DOJ caught up to it

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