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Friday, March 4, 2011

Video: Neil Gaman Explains How Piracy Helps New Readers Discover His Work, and Thus Helps His Overall Sales in the Long-Run

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Blog Archive

  • ▼  2011 (297)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ▼  March (81)
      • Other Press Raises Digital Royalty to 50%
      • Digital Subscribers Way Up for News Corp. in UK, B...
      • Surging eBook Sales Help a Shrinking Random House ...
      • Kindle Will Bypass New York Times Paywall
      • Diverging Digital Roads: Poetry and E-books
      • Borders Liquidators Race Clock, Squeeze Cash From ...
      • Amazon courting Apple's iOS developers to port app...
      • Lessons for journalism from the Google Books decis...
      • Barnes & Noble soon to add more tablet functionali...
      • No Buyers for Barnes & Noble at 60 Cents on Dollar
      • Nook Color Android app store coming in April along...
      • Once again, old-media publisher pays big advance i...
      • Audible.com Audiobooks Now Available (For Real - a...
      • After Rejection, a Rocky Road For Google Settlement
      • Google’s Next Stop May Be in Congress
      • Major Publisher Investment Advances Inkling as the...
      • Textbook Renter Chegg Becomes More Social
      • Portability: Does Apple's iBooks need to go Android?
      • Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find a Buyer
      • The Kindle-Killer That Wasn’t
      • The rejected Google e-books settlement: What it me...
      • Books-A-Million sales slipped last year
      • Amazon Reinstates Kindle-Lending Startup Lendle
      • Judge Rules Against Google Books Settlement
      • That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes...
      • Google Says Microsoft Patent Lawsuit Threatens Inn...
      • Semantics: "Real" Books vs. eBooks
      • Yet Another Tech IP Lawsuit: Apple Sues Amazon Ove...
      • Microsoft v. Android: now B&N Nook gets software p...
      • Amazon stymies Lendle e-book lending service
      • Waterstone's Managing Director: Academic bookselli...
      • re: Borders UK meltdown
      • What if Amazon released Android Kindle tablet?
      • Is Amazon working on an Android Kindle?
      • No More NY Times Links
      • Kindle to move to Android? [Rumor]
      • Kobo eBook app now available for Samsung Windows P...
      • Paywall for The New York Times Set for March 28
      • Borders closing 28 additional stores, making final...
      • January E-book Sales Soar, Top Hardcover, Mass Mar...
      • No breakthrough over author e-book rights in Franc...
      • Kindle’s "Real" Page Numbers - How They Did It
      • B&N Pines for a Storybook Ending
      • 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015
      • EU anger over ebook deal suggests hard times ahead...
      • French government says publishers should collabora...
      • Apple Keeps Right On Approving Amazon And Netflix ...
      • Good Summary of the Current State of Business re: ...
      • Luddites Whining: The End Of Bookstores
      • Struggling States Try to Get Amazon to Collect Sal...
      • Milestone - The Web (Finally) Surpasses Newspapers...
      • Publishers Declare War on Libraries - Brilliant Move
      • For Borders, a Scramble to be Lean
      • Kindle 3 Catapults Amazon to 48% eReader Market Sh...
      • Bloomsbury sees ebook sales leap
      • iPad 2 as e-reader: glare still an issue
      • Borders Meets with Publishers Over Terms; Conferen...
      • Wall Street Journal Adds 200,000 Mobile-Device Sub...
      • Goodreads Buys Recommendation Service Discovereads
      • Len Riggio: American trade on cusp of "transformat...
      • Turow & Authors Guild Not Just Out of Touch on the...
      • Scott Turow and the Authors Guild Still Don't Get It
      • Rumor: Random House UK considering agency pricing ...
      • Kobo Raises A New Round Of Funding
      • Diesel eBook Store and Macmillan Form a Direct Par...
      • Cory Doctorow: eBook durability is a feature, not ...
      • As Borders Sinks, Barnes & Noble Scrambles to Rema...
      • Dealtalk: Barnes & Noble auction gets case of writ...
      • Seven IT Lessons From The Borders Collapse
      • Gleick's "The Information" is to the nature, histo...
      • Video: Neil Gaman Explains How Piracy Helps New Re...
      • Scorned librarians and the eBook piracy underground
      • UK Research: Consumers expect lower prices for ebooks
      • Barnes & Noble/Spring Design settle lawsuit over N...
      • AppleInsider | Random House books come to Apple's ...
      • Crush or Get Crushed: Why B&N Needs to Be a Publisher
      • European regulators are right: agency pricing = pr...
      • HarperCollins's Open Letter to Librarians Shows Th...
      • AppleInsider: Random House may soon join iBooks -
      • Random House Switches to Agency Model, Joins Other...
      • Do E-Book Users Need a Bill of Rights? (Librarians...
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Some Interesting e-Publishing Enterprises

  • Cursor
  • Diversion Books
  • eBook Architects
  • Enhanced Editions
  • FastPencil
  • New Street Communications, LLC
  • Nomad Editions
  • Odyssey Editions
  • Open Books
  • Open Road Integrated Media
  • PadWorX Digital Media
  • Push Pop Press
  • RosettaBooks
  • ScrollMotion
  • Smashwords
  • Volio Press
  • Vook
  • Wattpad
  • Wowio
  • Zinio

Open-Source Textbook Initiatives

  • College Open Textbooks Community
  • Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative
  • Curriki
  • Flat World Knowledge
  • Free Digital Textbooks Initiative

Worthwhile Organizations

  • Banned Books Week
  • Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  • Creative Commons
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Institute for the Future of the Book
  • PEN American Center Freedom to Write Campaign
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Worldreader.org
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