Todays links of interest:
- Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books
Interesting. - The iPhone e-book readers’ guide
Macworld reviews ereaders for the iPhone. - Opportunities in the Digital Arena for Independent Bookstores: An Action Plan for the American Booksellers Association
While we applaud the concept of a plan (and wish we had one!), we’re a bit, dudes, it’s 2009. Now you’re getting started on a plan? - 2008 NBCC Winners Announced
Congratulations to all winners (trying hard to avoid snark about gender). - Why Can’t a Woman (Writer) Be More Like a Man?
Jennifer Weiner pulls out a scalpel and cuts, cuts, cuts. - The Book Business Ain’t The Music Business
Mike Shatzkin responds to the American Booksellers Association plan for a digital future. - Trade Unit Staying at HMH; Credit Amended
They’re for sale, they’re not for sale, they’re…who knows. - Publishing ecosystem going Hollywood?
Interesting thoughts from Appingo. - ‘Page-turner’? Or ‘page-tapper’? Just what do you call an e-novel you like?
In which Kirk invents a new term.
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KatG // Mar 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Appingo seems t0 be unaware, in suggesting that publishing use more of a Hollywood system, that there is a profession called book packager. Book packagers, long cast as a growing industry, work mostly in non-fiction but increasingly in fiction to find authors and have them do books and series, which are packaged to publishers and marketed much like an agent does. However, instead of a commission on sales, like an agent gets, the packager gets about half the royalties of the author, sometimes more since the writer is often an editor at the packaging company or a writer for hire. So there already are book producers out there. The most successful has specialized in YA fiction for girls, with Gossip Girls and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, both of which have been multi-media franchises for the company.