Before you start talking about people who get welfare in some way, realize that you don’t know who around you has been helped by govt aid in the […]
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What I Learned About Society From Amanda Palmer
I summed up a lot of how I felt about the recent furor around AFP’s “beer and hugs”-gate last week. I’m continuing my own observations here to clarify […]
digital publishing / ebooks / economics / publishing
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There Be Titans: Negotiating the eBook Marketplace
While at Origins this year, I was talking to Gregory Wilson (and the issue came up again on a panel or three) about what was going on in […]
digital publishing / ebooks / economics
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Steps Toward Making eBook format conversion trivial for average users
Yesterday, I talked a lot about where I think Mike Stackpole was wrong – but I also want to talk about where that leads to him being completely […]
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Where DRM (or a lack of it) is relevant – even with Microsoft entering the eReader game
There’s two points I want to respond to with Mike Stackpole’s article “Is DRM really Significant?”. It’s important I keep these two points completely separate – because he’s […]
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Why Amazon Lowering eBook Prices Is Shit For Authors – and What Readers and Authors Can Do About It
Let me just start with “Oh, I hope I’m wrong.” Because if I’m wrong, then I’m on the winning side. But I’m strongly figuring that I’m right, and […]