Tag: future of publishing

This Week’s Articles — 10/07 to 10/13/12

“National Book Awards: Genre fiction dissed again”.  A well written article on the tendency of literary awards (and literary critics and readers of literary fiction generally) to ignore even superlative fiction if it falls within a genre such as mystery/crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and so forth.  (Laura Miller, Salon) … Read more »

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This Week’s Articles (9/23 to 9/29/2012)

This Week’s Articles (9/23 to 9/29/2012)

The initial ebook release of J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (released 9/27) was “literally unreadable” according to Laura Hazard Owen of Paid Content — and any number of angry and dismayed Kindle and Nook customers.  Hatchette has since fixed the problem, but it’s a major blunder, especially since the… Read more »

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Ebook Piracy and Copyright Revisited

On the ebook piracy front: Earlier this summer, NYT commentator David Pogue tried to buy The Bourne Identity in ebook form so his son could read it at summer camp.  But Ludlum’s books aren’t commercially available as ebooks, due to a dispute over royalty rates between Ludlum’s estate and his… Read more »

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