Archive for September, 2010

Let them eat cake! A recent article in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of ebooks on writers, publishers and agents mixed genuine concern for the little guy with a lot of misplaced sympathy for industry fat cats. The article describes how major publishers are signing fewer authors and offering smaller advances due to [...]

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A new Harris survey on Americans’ use of electronic book readers, or “e-readers,” reveals some interesting trends with impact for anyone who writes or publishes for a living. Overall, just eight percent of the 2,775 adults polled use an e-reader such as the Kindle or nook to read books. However, those polled who do use [...]

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