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Apple's decision to reject an e-book by Seth Godin because it contains hyperlinks to books in the Amazon store is just another example of how the oligopoly that controls the market for e-books is turning the landscape of reading into a walled garden.
The e-book is usually said to have been invented in 1971, when an undergrad at the University of Illinois, Michael S. Hart, decided to upload The Declaration of Independence onto an ARPAnet server. Sitting in the Materials Research Lab among hulking, warmly breathing Xerox Sigma V processors, Hart went on to input and share, with a quixotic singularity of purpose, text after text.
When taking an unprepared approach, the process of creating an eBook can have some undesirable effects on your publications due to automation tools and processes and dated materials that may or may not be in a digital format. Add to that the complexity of multiple devices and formats and you can have a disaster in […]
A couple of major (Big Six) publishers have acknowledged that ebook revenues for them have passed 20% of their revenues. Of the 80% that remains print, I think it would be conservative to estimate that 20% of that is sold online. That’s an additional 16 percent of their business. Adding those together tells us that, for at […]
Because libraries are, at most 5% of a general trade publisher’s business and far less of the ebook business, and because the market is changing so rapidly and because every retailer except Amazon can be said to be struggling to carve out a sustainable position in the global ebook marketplace, there are many legitimate reasons […]
In a world where people increasingly consume their content on multiple platforms, questions are swirling about why publishers are not allowing readers easy access to both digital and print. (Studies show that most e-book readers also buy print books.)
There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.
Ticky-box comparison tool for big subscription ebook platforms.
After publishing his first print book, photographer Trey Ratcliff started his own e-book publisher, FlatBooks. Why? Because the painful process taught him everything that’s wrong with the old model of publishing and opened his eyes to the near-limitless potential of e-books.
Who Controls Ebook Rights, Future Technology Clause, Or Hereinafter Invented
Good summary.
Why ebooks happened now, not before.
lean back 2.0
Useful summary of 2011 ebook market developments.