Publishing NewsAdobe / copyright / DRM / intellectual property / LibraryThing / plagiarism / tattoos10 Comments
People always say the same thing about tattoos – File this under: everything old is new again. A brief history, not of tattooing, but of reactions to tattoos, from shocked to scandalized to excited. As Matt Lodder explains, the reputation tattoos have as being associated with certain groups of people ... more >
Publishing Newsebook sales / LibraryThing / reader communities6 Comments
E-book Sales Bolster Publishers’ Bottom Lines – While the adoption of ebooks isn’t providing a one to one replacement of the loss of physical book sales, PW reports that none of the Big 5 publishers had a margin of less than 9% in 2012. Higher sales of ebooks was creating ... more >
MiscBookish / Goodreads / LibraryThing / Riffle / Shelfari / Storyverse34 Comments
Some readers are concerned about the growing reach of Amazon into all corners of our book reading world from selling to publishing to acquiring their favorite social media site where they chat with other readers about. I’ve looked at a few alternatives but other than Library Thing, there isn’t a ... more >