[I had meant to post this link when this article appeared in April…. PWR]The New Yorker on the iPad and books:The industry’s great hope was that the iPad would bring electronic books to the masses—and help make them profitable. E-books are booming. Although they account for only an estimated three to five per cent of …
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G & C Merriam wholesale and retail book trade archive dispersal
Steve Ferguson of Princeton University Library talks about the dispersal of the unusual and research-valuable G. & C. Merriam archive.http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2010/04/dispersal_of_a_book_trade_arch.html
Laura Miller on Kindle vs eBook
Laura Miller at Salon has a good backstory on Amazon’s Kindle and the Apple iPad eBook reader.Laura Miller – Salon.com: “This dust-up is the culmination of a long-standing feud between Amazon and book publishers. What triggered it, however, is something new: the introduction of Apple’s iPad.”Note Miller comments about publishers’ fear of Amazon’s attempt to control …
James Patterson, Author (updated)
Image via WikipediaToday’s New York Times Magazine has a long piece about thriller potboiler author James Patterson. Patterson, who started out as a major mover and shaker in advertising at J Walter Thompson, has been transforming an old established publishing house like Little Brown. I do admire his insight that people buy the name (like …