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Andrew Wylie cancels exclusive deal with Amazon, re-partners with Random House
Hey, remember when these books were all released to Amazon directly by the literary agency instead of through the print publisher? No? You don’t care? Yeah, it’s a bit insidery, but the reason it was interesting to consumers is it … Continue reading
Updike, Nabokov, Borges and other literary giants finally hit the Kindle Store
Update, 24 Aug 2010:Wylie’s agency has made-up with Random House and is canceling this deal with Amazon, so never mind. Original post below: Up until now, some of the biggest names in Western literature–Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, Hunter S. … Continue reading
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Chaos over securing digital rights for "enhanced" ebooks
If the history of commerce on the Internet is at all predictive, then we probably have a good ten years before big publishers bring the right big guns to the fight and suck up the majority of the market. That leaves a lot of time for disruptive newcomers to transform the marketplace significantly enough that they emerge as permanent and powerful market leaders. Continue reading
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