Todays links of interest:
- Ada Lovelace Day: Danielle Zaikoff (and many others)
Love it, Ada Lovelace Day! Great post from Hugh McGuire. - Bertelsmann Predicts 2009 Profit, Sales Will Drop on Ad Slump
Ouch to our friends at Random House. - Peter Brantley joins the Internet Archive
Very cool! - FiledBy Author
Launches the big bad beta today. Go, claim your page! - SS Follows Random in Reduction of E-Book Royalties
25% of net receipts. Continues to mirror old-school print prices (sigh), meaning royalties per book change over the life cycle of said book. - Trade ‘excludes’ 20m reader
In a world where books are seen as alienating, budgets that could connect potential readers to books (places called libraries!) are being cut. Makes no sense at all. - Workman Gives Away Kindles, Lands Book in Amazon’s Top Spot
Not suggesting this as a strategy, merely noting it got results. - Pay Freeze for Barnes Noble Execs
Too bad, but understandable. - FTC Hearing on DRM
Couldn’t make today’s FTC hearing in Seattle on DRM? Follow along at home via the Twitterstream (#ftcfdrm)