I don’t know about you all, but I could use a small breather from the heavy this week. So as I was thinking about this week’s post, I kept circling back to a couple of interesting tweets from Digital Book World. First, a comment from Kobo’s head bookseller, Nathan Maharaj, ... more >
I have a number of thoughts running around my head over the Agency pricing resolution and the post settlement state of affairs. 1) Will Agency pricing be brought back in two years. Per the terms of the settlement, publishers’ right to control prices will return in two years. The question ... more >
Introduction This post is to help ebook buyers understand their rights and deadlines in the price fixing settlement. Minnesotans, this post is not for you. Nor does it apply to those in DC or one of the five Territories or Commonwealths It’s about the ebook price fixing settlement and for ... more >
Yesterday around 3-4 pm CST, Amazon engaged in some weird pricing shenanigans with several books (who knows how many) getting a 31% off treatment. Initially some on the Amazon boards thought it signaled the end of agency for Simon & Schuster but after investigating, I noticed that several Macmillan books ... more >
Wait, it’s Friday already? Universal-EMI Merger Could Yield New Mega-Label To Threaten The Future Of Music – Did the internet ruin record labels? I mean, Napster, Pandora, the decline of the CD and the rise of the low priced single heralded the end of labels, right? Apparently not. The four ... more >
I’m changing things up a little. More and more people apparently read the news roundup that I post every day and therefore I’ve decided to post the news posts first thing in the morning. That’s when most people read the news and thus Dear Author can be a consistent morning ... more >