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NYT Bestseller discloses personal sales and profit information

http://www.genreality.net/more-on-the-reality-of-a-times-bestseller Continue

Added by John Dishon on December 3, 2009 at 8:32am — 6 Comments

Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/ Continue

Added by John Dishon on December 2, 2009 at 12:44pm — 2 Comments

B&N to release competition for Amazon's Kindle with its "Nook" e-reader

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/barnes-nobles-kindle-killing-dual-screen-nook-e-reader-leaked/ Same price, sharing with others, color touchscreen, supports open formats such as EPUB, 2GB storage, wifi, b&w e-ink screen, discounted prices for ebooks (finally!)...the Kindle is in trouble. Continue

Added by John Dishon on October 21, 2009 at 12:43pm — 8 Comments

Amazon sued over Kindle deletion of Orwell books

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090731/ap_on_en_ot/us_tec_amazon_kindle_lawsuit Continue

Added by John Dishon on August 1, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4325774.html Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 28, 2009 at 12:32pm — 1 Comment

Amazon un-publishes 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindle

That's right. Those who bought those books now don't have them, as they have been deleted from their Kindles, their accounts credited for the price they paid. So Amazon, via the Kindle, can take away books you have paid for, meaning when you buy a Kindle edition book, you don't really own it. Yet another reason not to buy a Kindle. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-… Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 18, 2009 at 8:06am — 3 Comments

Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed-kgb-spy From the article: "Its section on the author's secret life as a "dilettante spy" draws on his KGB file in saying he was recruited in 1941 before making a trip to China, given the cover name "Argo", and "repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us" when he met Soviet agents in Havana and London in the 40s. Howe… Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 10, 2009 at 4:38pm — 2 Comments

Kindle 2 Price Plunge Signals E-Book Reader Market Competition

http://www.pcworld.com/article/168098/kindle_2_price_plunge_signals_ebook_reader_market_competition.html From the article: "The bigger question remains, Is there a market here worth expanding? A dedicated e-book reader may enjoy a niche audience, but the question remains whether a separate device for reading digital books will be viable in the long term. A… Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 10, 2009 at 8:04am — 6 Comments

Amazon takes one more step toward in-book advertisements for the Kindle

http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/07/06/amazon-takes-one-more-step-toward-in-book-advertisements-for-the-kindle/ Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 8, 2009 at 1:47am — 14 Comments

Self-publishing finds commercial niche in digital age

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/22/self-publishing-finds-commercial-niche-in-digital-/ Some cherry-picked quotes: On Tuesday, the bibliographic information company Bowker released statistics showing that last year, for the first time, more books were released by on-demand publishers than by traditional ones. Traditional publishers released fewer books in 2008 than in 2007… Continue

Added by John Dishon on May 23, 2009 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/judge-reviewing-pirate-bay-trial-bias-is-removed-for-bias/ This case keeps getting more and more interesting. Continue

Added by John Dishon on May 22, 2009 at 7:39am — No Comments

Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/harvard-prof-tells-judge-that-p2p-filesharing-is-fair-use.ars It's a pretty ballsy position. For sure this will be a case to keep an eye on if you're interested in the future of intellectual property rights. From the article: "Should Nesson win, he will essentially legalize the sharing of all digital goods, copyrighted or… Continue

Added by John Dishon on May 20, 2009 at 12:59pm — 2 Comments

Amazon Encore

"Even great books can be overlooked. And authors with great potential often struggle to connect with the larger audience they deserve to reach. We’re fortunate at Amazon.com to have customers who know a good book when they read one, so we've introduced AmazonEncore to help connect authors and their books with more readers. AmazonEncore is a new program whereby Amazon will use information such as customer reviews on Amazon.com to identify exceptional, overlooked books and authors with more po… Continue

Added by John Dishon on May 15, 2009 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Raymond Chandler's Style Analyzed (An essay I found)

http://www.uiowa.edu/~smack/archive/smack1.1/ess3.htm Continue

Added by John Dishon on May 14, 2009 at 9:55am — 2 Comments

Man Writes Bestselling Novel on His Cellphone

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/04/22/2009-04-22_train_of_thought_bklyn_writer_found_muse__wrote_first_novel_while_commuting_on_t.html Here's a link to the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Warded-Man-Peter-V-Brett/dp/0345503805 Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 30, 2009 at 4:13am — 1 Comment

Amazon Consolidates Its Power, Acquires Stanza Digital Reader App For iPhone

From Galley Cat: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/breaking_amazoncom_inc_acquires_stanza_digital_reader_app_115103.asp Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 29, 2009 at 7:47am — 5 Comments

All of Fiction Costs $125 Million

http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=308&mode=one My favorite parts of the article: "As we all know, Google recently bought all out-of-print fiction from the "Author's Guild" for $125 million dollars. This laughable, ludicrously small price is the kind of price that somebody would only offer for something that they didn't actually own. You know, like Napoleon selling Louisiana to America in order to pay for his war in Eur… Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 29, 2009 at 3:14am — 5 Comments

Disability Access Activists Gather to Protest Kindle DRM

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/protest-kindle-drm Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 11, 2009 at 12:01am — 7 Comments

Authors have lost the plot in Kindle battle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/31/cory-doctorow-kindle Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 1, 2009 at 10:52pm — 6 Comments

What We Might Gain (Article on the upside of ebooks)

http://www.fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=320&mode=one Continue

Added by John Dishon on March 25, 2009 at 1:19am — 5 Comments

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