[Note: I just published this yesterday and now I have to revise it! Apple has now made their play for a publishing platform. However a significant difference with Apple’s platform is that they have chosen to slant the platform to established published works by requiring a 13 digit ISBN number. […]
Publishing and publishers
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The looming problem in ebook copyright may curtail the growth and longevity of this burgeoning industry. The problem seems to be developing in three areas that will only compound over the coming months as different e-readers and ebook retailers enter the market. The three main issues are copyright protection, proprietary […]
The biggest dilemma facing content editors and their consumers in the digital age is copyright protection. Publishers and authors want to protect their Intellectual property and they should have the right to do so. Digital copies are a serious threat to the profits of publishers, and the livelihood of authors […]
ETEXTBOOK DREAM The glossy ads of e-reader device makers would have you believe that they will usher in a new era of reading. They claim their devices will revitalize newspapers, magazines, and textbooks by transforming them into multimedia formats of Potter-esque perfection. That vision may someday be realized, but only […]
Nicholas Carr refers to the great unbundling in his book The Big Switch. Carr claims that the internet is unbundling content from newspapers and other media forms and creating large value for commercially driven content that can be easily “added” or linked to click-thru ads. What I’d like to examine […]
Soon large media conglomerates will scramble to address an inversion of their current publication model. Amazon’s straight-to-device self-publishing platform (Digital Text Platform) is sure to spawn competitors and these services may very well threaten the long and arduous print process that has existed for hundreds of years. In this post, […]