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What smaller publishers, agents, and authors need to know about ebook publishing

September 5, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

As the shift from a print-centric book world to a digital one accelerates, more and more digital publishers are creating themselves. The biggest publishers, with the resources of sophisticated IT departments to guide them, have been in the game for years now and paying serious attention since the Kindle was launched by Amazon late in […]

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