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Missing the point on e-book readers
You make three main points against buying e-book readers: 1. The cost is too high for most people to recoop their initial investment 2. There is a ''format war'' going on that could make your choosen reader obsolete 3. Apples table could revolutionize the market like the ipod did to mp3 players. Unfortunately you left out important ...
Posted to Technology by jtwityth on November 24, 2009
Wu Has Not Grasped Publishing Economics
Wu has a lot right here, but ignoring (or ignorance of) current publishing economics causes him to favor an outcome less beneficial to authors than it needs to be. Most out-of-print (OP) books are tied to old publishing economics built on economies of scale requiring a pubisher to print at least a thousand offset copies of an older book in ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by whodunit on November 13, 2009
The Max I Know
(warning: some movie spoilers included in this post but it is not really a movie review) I went to the AMC-Imax to see the new Spike Jonze film, and was quite taken with the story adaptation as well as the beautiful costumes and the luscious scenery. If you don’t know the story, young Max is confronted with lots of changes in his life as ...
Posted to Left Field by artandsoul on October 21, 2009
Amazon's remote deletion of e-books
As an independent publisher of e-books I had always had the impression that the Kindle e-books were intended to be kept by the buyer, just in the same way that print books are. It was not until the lawsuit that I found out about the ''leasing'' arrangement. In the face of piracy issues and other problems with copyright and infringement, it is ...
Posted to Technology by TMoore on October 2, 2009
Google settlement
I would like to see the new Settlement require permission from all rights owners before all or large parts of a work are displayed or sold. Anything less guarantees unintended consequences. For example, the Berne Convention would be contravened, and we would automatically become a rogue nation on that front. Since IP is one of our major exports ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Marion Gropen on September 30, 2009
Re: I can "conceive" such situations . . .
''conceive'' definitions 2 & or 3, por favor!
Posted to Books by Brainwash on September 25, 2009
Re: After all, are all gays really gay?
robwriter:After all, are all straights really straight? And BTW, if the human race is headed for extinction, it will be due to overpopulation, not gays.[After all, are all straights really straight? Of course they are, otherwise they would have been gays, just like you!] As for this bizarre idea [if the human race is headed for extinction, it ...
Posted to Books by Brainwash on September 24, 2009
After all, are all gays really gay?
Well, I looked at the definition of the word ''gay'' in a dictionary and found that this word is the adjective of the noun ''gaiety'' which means: cheerfulness; Merrymaking; festivity; finery; showy brightness. ... Do you mean every gay is by nature really gay? Hadn't been for women we would have been subjected to extinction.
Posted to Books by Brainwash on September 23, 2009
Always good to see Judith Shulevitz here.
Thanks for a great review. I've never read William Trevor, but now I'm going to have to start.
Posted to Books by sugar_k on September 21, 2009
Stumped
Dear Stumped, There's a pretty good book called It's Okay to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees Need by Bruce Tulgan. It may help you understand how to emphasize the positive while still making your expectations clear. Once things become threatening and confrontational, the battle is all but over. ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by BartSimms on September 18, 2009

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