HarperCollins announced a new imprint yesterday. And once again, we see no evidence that the big general trade publishers understand how to attack their new challenges in the 21st century. The difficulty for publishers, as readers of mine know, … [Continue reading]
Enhanced Ebooks, Part 2
This is the second post of a series which spells out a new ebook strategy for trade publishers, expressed in the form of a letter from the publisher to its authors. The first post -- the beginning of the letter -- expressed the publisher's intention … [Continue reading]
Amazon in the ebook age, reconsidered
Amazon made a huge leap to the front of the iPhone line. Putting a Kindle reader on the iPhone for free through the App Store enables shopping at Amazon's Kindle store and then a direct download into the iPhone (or into the Kindle, or both!) This … [Continue reading]
Publishers need to be clearer about their rights
Some of the recent conversation about ebook fair use sparked by the Kindle-and-audio incident made me recall that Joe Esposito and I had written about this problem in Publishers Weekly more than two years ago. We had a different catalyst for our … [Continue reading]
Enhanced Ebooks, Part 1
I want to try to lay out a strategic approach to enhanced ebooks which I believe is more extensive than any general house has shown an inclination to pursue so far. I thought the clearest way to express this would be as a letter to an author which … [Continue reading]
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