To Publish Without Perishing (Clay Shirky guestblog post)
Clay Shirky, guest blogging on Boing Boing does a nice job of delineating the differences between “Readers” and “book Lovers”.
From Aldus Manutius until recently, book lovers have been the most passionate readers. Now they are mostly just the oldest readers. Thanks to digital data, there is a [...]
Bill McCoy comments about the recent Wired article describing the success of a self published novel Daemon. Bill points out that ultimately Daemon only sold about 1200 copies and that in the publishing trade, sales of less than 5000 copies would be considered “misery”. Further, a typical successful mid-list novel would sell [...]
Over the weekend I sent a colleague this post on Charlie Stross’ blog. My colleague is quite involved with eBooks and I thought the report of MobiPocket having problems with their DRM server would be of interest to him.
As an aside in my e-mail, I mentioned that I had read and enjoyed Stross’ [...]