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2018 Microsoft ebook predictions

Submitted by Bibliofuture on December 20, 2017 - 11:49pm
In 1999 Microsoft made a series of predictions about the upcoming 20 years and ebooks. There was a prediction about 2018. See all the predictions here.
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'We're told to be grateful we even have readers': pirated ebooks threaten the future of book series

Submitted by Blake on November 7, 2017 - 8:27am
Stiefvater revealed that she is now writing three more books set in the Raven Cycle world, but that the new trilogy “nearly didn’t exist because of piracy”. “And already I can see in the tags how Tumblr users are talking about how they intend to pirate book one of the new trilogy for any number of reasons, because I am terrible or because they would ‘rather die than pay for a book’,” she wrote. “As an author, I can’t stop that. But pirating book one means that publishing cancels book two. This ain’t 2004 anymore. A pirated copy isn’t ‘good advertising’ or ‘great word of mouth’ or ‘not really a lost sale’.”
From 'We're told to be grateful we even have readers': pirated ebooks threaten the future of book series | Books | The Guardian
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Canadian Libraries feel the eBook pinch

Submitted by Blake on May 24, 2016 - 11:24am
The book worm has turned. Local libraries are making noise about eBook prices, saying that they pay multinational publishers up to five times more than average consumers do for the same titles. And libraries — including ones in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax and Vancouver — say they’d like things to change, so that they can pay according to their size and needs, rather than using the current one-size-fits-all model.
From Libraries feel the eBook pinch | Toronto Star
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Books are back. Only the technodazzled thought they would go away

Submitted by Blake on May 14, 2016 - 11:31am
The hysterical cheerleaders of the e-book failed to account for human experience, and publishers blindly followed suit. But the novelty has worn off
From Books are back. Only the technodazzled thought they would go away | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian
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Apple gets smacked by $450-million e-book price-fixing fine

Submitted by Blake on March 7, 2016 - 6:27pm

The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear Apple's appeal of a lower court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices. Apple must now pay $450 million as part of its anti-trust e-book settlement. Amazon, however, is probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-gets-smacked-by-450-million-e-book-price-fixing-fine/

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Tim Tierney's call for 'fair' e-book prices for Canadian libraries adopted by FCM

Submitted by Blake on March 6, 2016 - 8:38pm

Canadian municipalities are asking the federal government to find ways to bring down e-book prices for their public libraries, a move led by an Ottawa councillor. 

From Tim Tierney's call for 'fair' e-book prices for libraries adopted by FCM - Ottawa - CBC News

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E-Books and User Privacy

Submitted by Bibliofuture on February 9, 2016 - 4:05pm

Article in the Creighton Law Review

Down the Rabbit Hole: E-Books and User Privacy in the 21st Century

https://goo.gl/37VZlv (PDF)

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Legal Issues

Faber boss says future of book publishing is mobile

Submitted by Blake on December 11, 2015 - 5:16pm

The chief executive of publisher Faber & Faber has challenged the book publishing industry to respond to the rapid increase in smartphone use, particularly by young readers.

“Perhaps in the 21st century the zero-law of publishing will be understand mobile. Because without expert understanding of it, we may not be able to create the new audiences,” said Stephen Page, speaking at the FutureBook publishing industry conference in London.

From Faber boss says future of book publishing is mobile | Technology | The Guardian

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Ebooks for All Building digital libraries in Ghana with Worldreader

Submitted by Blake on November 30, 2015 - 7:59am

Of course, Kindles and Christianity are different beasts. But the fundamental posturing can feel eerily close. Those of us who work in technology tend to take religious-like stances over its ability to change the world, always for the better.

From Ebooks for All — Craig Mod

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On The Dark Matter Of The Publishing Industry

Submitted by Blake on November 12, 2015 - 11:39am

The problem with their legacy universe is that you just can’t *control* digital things the way you can paper things, and that’s the real reason the traditional publishing industry is cutting off its nose to spite its face when it comes to ebooks. It’s precisely what DRM represents: an absurd and pathetic attempt to recreate in the digital realm a command-and-control system that profits off the characteristics of *paper.*

To be clear, what I’m saying is that traditional publishers actually make their money not from the traits of novels, or biographies, or any other kind of *text:* they make their money from bundles of paper that can essentially be seized or held up at the border, or be pulped, or burned, or just deteriorate in ways a digital file can’t.

From On The Dark Matter Of The Publishing Industry | TechCrunch

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