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DBW Weekly Roundup: 7/16/10
Digital Book World presents a weekly round-up of some of the most interesting news, commentary and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world:Pass the...
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eBook Rights: The Agents’ Perspective
Andrew Wylie’s controversial Odyssey Editions eBook initiative, which attempted to disintermediate the traditional publishers who built its authors’ reputations in print in favor of a higher eBook...
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eBook Revolution: Random House vs. The Jackal
By Richard Curtis, President of Richard Curtis Associates, Inc.; founder of E-ReadsRevolutions produce unlikely heroes, and the Digital Revolution has produced a very unlikely one in the form of a man...
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Arthur Klebanoff: eBook Veteran, First Mover
By Emily Williams, co-chair, BISG Rights SubcommitteeArthur Klebanoff set himself up as an agent in 1983, bought the Scott Meredith Literary Agency in 1993, and then, seeing early potential for ebooks,...
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Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future
By Emily Williams, co-chair, BISG Rights SubcommitteeBook deals were pretty simple once upon a time.There was just the book: hardcover, paper, a creature of the educated elite, the bookshop and the...
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Rethinking Contracts and Copyrights
A free WEBcast presented by Digital Book WorldEbook publishers have unsurprisingly been in the vanguard of offering new terms to authors, often as a way of competing against the big established print...
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Reversal of Royalties: A Modest Proposal
Bob Mayer, NY Times bestselling AuthorWhen does a book go out of print if it is made available in eBook?Many contracts, particularly those pre-dating the eBook explosion, are not clear on this point....
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Flat World Knowledge’s Disruptive Business Model: Q&A with Co-Founder Eric...
By Yvette M. Chin, Editor, Digital Book WorldIn the higher education textbook market, Flat World Knowledge has been an incredibly disruptive force, redefining how business is done. The key to their...
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Flat World Knowledge’s Disruptive Business Model: Q&A with Co-Founder Eric...
By Yvette M. Chin, Editor, Digital Book WorldIn the first half of this interview, President and Co-Founder Eric Frank of Flat World Knowledge, an open textbook publisher in the higher ed market,...
View ArticleFollowing Amazon: Seattle-Based Small Publisher Moves to Monthly Royalty...
Bucking decades of convention, Amazon began offering its authors monthly royalty payments as opposed to twice annually as has been the tradition in the publishing industry.Now, a small Seattle...
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Amazon’s Move That Should Have Authors Worried
In a blog post yesterday, Amazon’s Audible audiobooks service announced that it was lowering the royalty rates it paid content creators.It’s not the first time that Amazon has lowered the amount of...
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Join Digital Book World on Tuesday, September 9 at 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT / 5:00pm GMT for a free webcast exploring how new approaches to royalties and rights management can mutually improve the...
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