Todays links of interest:
- The Perseus Books Group Adds FiledBy as Online Marketing Platform
Starting with Vanguard Press, Perseus is joining the Filedby family. W00t! - Fiction Faces Hard Facts: Newcomers Are a Tough Sell
Which, you know, isn’t really what this article is about. More like, since big houses are consolidating bets on surefire hits, small press is seeing increased opportunity. - Publishers Nurture Rivals to Kindle
Sorta, kinda. - Lessig vs. Warner Music: This Should Be Good
Yes, finally we get to have a real-life, real public discussion of fair use and silliness. Not necessarily in that order. - 100 best first lines from novels
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know the drill: read the lines, count how many books you’ve read. - Reports: US Dept. Of Justice Looking At Antitrust Issues Over Google Books Lawsuit
This is beyond report and is being considered.
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jim duncan // May 5, 2009 at 7:31 am
I don’t own an ereader. Likely be a long time before I do since I would use one too sparingly to make it cost effective. I seldom read magazines or newspapers either, other than articles here and there, so of course I would never subscribe to one via a reader. Considering that article on publishers nurturing other devices besides the Kindle to support their publications, it had me wondering. Why don’t newspapers and magazines break their content down into more useable, sellable pieces of information? I’m guessing a majority of the reading public only access papers and magazines for specific things. So, given the small-bite-size-chewing demographic of portable devices, why aren’t they considering portioning off their publications into more accommodating sizes, that people might be more likely to subscribe too. I wouldn’t subscribe for a whole magazine, but I just might subscribe to a particle columnist or particular section of the publication that comes out every month/week.
Of course, maybe they are and I’ve just not seen it. This is not an area I have a great deal of information about.