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Canongate buys rights to Obama’s book
Eoin Purcell From the BookSeller Bulletin I was reading over the daily e-mail I get as part of my Bookseller subscription (Not extortionate and quite valuable) and this caught my eye: Canongate has...
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Google Settlement & the author’s responsibility
Eoin Purcell Samantha Holman of the ICLA addresses the Mercier Author Meeting Head wrecking Mercier has spent the last few weeks in an intense period of trying to figure out our response to the Google...
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Ebook first publishing might work
UPDATE: The Huffington Post carried an article by John Oakes (co-founder OR Books) last week which I missed. I’m quite surprised there isn’t more news about this deal. Publishers Lunch* (apologies for...
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Pub Rants: Why You Can’t Buy An eBook In English Outside The U.S.
Not confusing at all! Interesting to think through this post and follow the competing agendas, reader’s, author’s, agent’s and publisher’s: If I sell Title X for North American rights only, then that...
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Go Read This | Graphic Novelist Alex de Campi Uses Kickstarter to Sell Print,...
I rather like this idea, I really do: Crowdsourcing the funding to self-publish books isn’t a new idea. Kickstarter got the trend going more than a year ago, Unbound took it a step further (just to...
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Go read This | The Finite Library by Willem Van Lancker
Colour me intrigued. Van Lancker is one of a trio involved in new ebook venture Oyster (good description and round up of the issues the start up will face by Martyn Daniels here). I found the section...
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Go Read This | A New Kind of Publisher: On Merging Creative Industries
A nice post from Zoe Faulder about how publishers are positioned for the “third generation” of ebooks: There is a third generation of ebooks that exists but is far less prolific than the previous two...
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On Developing Author Power
Back in July 2006 I wrote: E-books will push this change even more. There is no reason why authors’ royalties should be the same on e-books as they are for paper books and in many ways there is no...
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