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• 2010 a Lose-Lose-Lose Year for Buying, Selling Content, Says Outsell

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 484
  BURLINGAME, Calif. & LONDON – A widening gap between the price of information and buyers’ ability to pay will make 2010 a lose-lose-lose year for content buyers, sellers, and users, according to new research from Outsell, Inc. Information managers expect an aggregate six percent increase in the cost of their ...
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• Monday Midday Links: Lisa Valdez’s Patience Gets a Firm Release Date

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 140
  The UK focused publishing site, The Bookseller, had an article that suggests the delay of ebooks could only strengthen Amazon instead of weakening it. UK trade insider warned deferral was dangerous. “It is never a good response to say to a consumer: ‘We know you want this but we are not going to let you have ...
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• Writing Advice That Overturns the World

  
  Oz and Ends — Authority: 469
  I’m finishing off what ended up being “Writing Advice Week” at Oz and Ends with a look ahead from publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin : …selling content as a publisher is a business that is going to just get harder and harder until it won’t really be much of a business anymore. This has nothing to do ...
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• This Year in Publishing

  
  Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent — Authority: 124
  This YEAR in publishing.... But first, a brief programming note: Next week I will be posting as normal (or at least as normal as things ever get around here) through Wednesday December 23rd, and I will be working my little elf fingers to the bone tap tap tapping at the computer until then. Also making toys. Then I ...
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• Thursday Midday Links:

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 140
  MediaBistro held an ebook summit for the past few days and there were some interesting tidbits released. One of the overriding themes of the summit was that the $9.99 price point was not sustainable. One panel suggested that ads were the best possible way for publishers of content (magazines and books) to offer a ...
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• Separation of E-Book Rights: Publishers Worst Nightmare

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 112
  Publishers are fighting the last war, but theyd better turn their heads forward if they dont want to lose the next one. The notice served by Random House to authors and agents, vowing to protect its backlist from predatory e-book developers, focused so much attention on previously published books that just about ...
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• Separation of E-Book Rights: Publishers Worst Nightmare

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 572
  Publishers are fighting the last war, but theyd better turn their heads forward if they dont want to lose the next one. The notice served by Random House to authors and agents, vowing to protect its backlist from predatory e-book developers, focused so much attention on previously published books that just about ...
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• The Problem with Publishers (and Agents)

  
  Word Dreams... — Authority: 118
  The publishing industry is changing. No doubt about it. I posted on the impact of ereaders yesterday. There’s more to it, though. As an author , I attend conferences. I chat with agents and publishers, listen to their take on writers and the industry. Few admit to a problem in the publishing industry. Most of ...
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• UK Society of Authors issues guidance on ebook licensing, royalties

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  The Society of Authors has issued an important statement about ebooks and publishers. Here is part of it. I hope that authors in the US and other countries will take note. The statement covers most of the emerging issues today inckuding royalties, reversion of rights, POD, enhanced editions, out of print and ...
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• Mm, Mm, Mm, Would You Like to Take a (15-Mile) Walk? Work in Amazons Warehouse for the Holidays

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 572
  Help Wanted: Amazon Picker/Packer. Sturdy Sneakers a Must. EW.coms Popwatch picked up an item from Huffington Post linking to a job posting for holiday workers at an Amazon.com warehouse . Such jobs are known as picking and packing - that is, when a customer order comes in, you must proceed to the sector where ...
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• Some Good News...And More Water

  
  Candy's Blog — Authority: 112
  Ive had several pieces of good news this past week: First, What Remains of Heaven has been nominated for Romantic Times Best Historical Mystery of 2009 award. Then, I learned that What Angels Fear and Why Mermaids Sing are both going back to press. This makes the fourth printing for Angels , which is pretty ...
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• Annoyed Librarian: Hapless Publishers Now Blame Amazon

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Is the title of an article by Annoyed Librarian . Here’s a little snippet of and article well worth reading: Yesterday’s New York Times reported that publishers are delaying the ebook releases of some titles because they think ebook sales are cutting into their hardcover sales, especially given that Amazon ...
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• Book Review - The Writers Essential Tackle Box: Getting a Hook on the Publishing Industry by Lynn Price

  
  Duffbert's Random Musings — Authority: 416
  Im starting to move into the book writingrealm, and Im doing as much reading as I can to find out exactly how thebusiness of publishing works.  I found Lynn Prices blog, Behler Blog,during my research, and found she also had a book titled TheWriters Essential Tackle Box: Getting a Hook on the Publishing Industry ...
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• Publishings Winners Curse

  
  Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent — Authority: 124
  Originally posted in the Huffington Post In the climactic scene in Frank Norris classic novel McTEAGUE, the two antagonists find themselves in the desert. Shady San Francisco dentist McTeague has murdered his wife to steal her money (Belated spoiler alert!). He is then pursued by his former best friend Marcus, who ...
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• A New Ecology of Book Publishing

  
  Future Perfect Publishing — Authority: 106
  Several interlinked shifts are leading to a whole new ecology within book publishing.   First is the loss of jobs in the industry .  Over the past year, for example, employment in print related industries, including book publishing, has fallen by almost 90,000 jobs.  Second, as technology plays a bigger role in ...
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• Why Ebook Delays Won’t Save Trade Publishing

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 140
  Hardcovers are the lifeblood of the trade publishing industry. Without hardcovers, the trade publishing industry will die. David Young, CEO Hachette Book Group: “I can’t sit back and watch years of building authors sold off at bargain-basement prices. It’s about the future of the business.” ( Via WSJ ) ...
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• The publishing industry getting greedy

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  The New York Times has an interesting story today on e-books, copyright and backlist titles . Here’s the key point with this particular publishing issue: While most traditional publishers have included e-book rights in new author contracts for 15 years, many titles were originally published before e-books were ...
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• Does the mythical Mac tablet include a subscription to online pubs?

  
  Sharing the truth one thread at a time — Authority: 125
  Forbes : In a note to investors Wednesday, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner worte that “recent checks” have uncovered new details about Apple’s long-rumored tablet computer. Reiner reports Apple will begin manufacturing the tablet in February, suggesting a late April or April commercial release. The device will ...
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• The Year the Publishing Industry Committed Suicide—with a Little Help from Its Friends

  
  Candy's Blog — Authority: 112
  Times have been tough for most of us lately. But the publishing industry seems to have chosen 2009 as the year to shoot itself in the foot. And the arm. And the leg…. First came reports that certain houses were cutting out Advance Readers Copies/Editions for all but all but a few lucky Chosen Ones. Publishers have ...
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• ‘Editor & Publisher’, RIP

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  The publishing industry loses a major institution . Are we really seeing the (shockingly rapid) demise of the entire publishing industry as it’s been known in the modern era? Maybe so. From the link: Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper industry and a journalism institution that traces its origins ...
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