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Blogger Begins Amazon Boycott
Amazon's print-on-demand moves inspire Allison Randal to boycott the retailer.
POD Publisher Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon
In the wake of Amazon's recent print-on-demand moves, BookLocker.com has filed a class action lawsuit against the company.
News Roundup: Web Focus Yields Revenue for Tech Publisher, Out-of-Print Books Return Via POD, UK's First E-Reader, TorrentSpy Hit with $110+ Million Judgment
Tech Publisher Finds Path to Web Revenue Tech/trade publisher International Data Group (I.D.G.) rolled one of its largest magazines, InfoWorld, into a Web-only publication in April 2007. A profile of the company in the New York Times reveals encouraging first-year results from InfoWorld's digital transition: There were nervous months after the switch as the company awaited the reaction from advertisers…
Amazon POD: Friend or Foe to Indie Publishers?
An interesting editorial by Lloyd Jassin from the NY Center for Independent Publishing relating to the Amazon print-on-demand (POD) move: Physical distribution of books is largely the preserve of large conglomerate publishers and a handful of large independent distributors. It’s not a pretty business. It employs the equivalent of Yankee peddlers who hand-sell books to brick and mortar stores, with…
Faber Brings Out-of-Print Titles Back Through POD
Faber & Faber is launching Faber Finds, a print-on-demand (POD) imprint specializing in out-of-print titles. From The Guardian: The new titles, which will retail at about £9, and be printed with automatically generated cover designs, will not be stocked in large quantities by booksellers, but will be available to order through most major booksellers and the majority of internet-based…
Q&A: Philip Parker, Developer of Automated Authoring Platform
Philip Parker uses his automated authoring process to develop thousands of books across 17 different genres.
Amazon Ups the Ante on Platform Lock-In
UPDATED with additional related reading links. We often hold up Amazon as an example of one of the original Web 2.0 companies. Their survival amid the tech meltdown was driven largely by the value of the data they’d acquired through thousands of reader reviews, recommendations, and "people who bought this bought that" collaborative filtering. Amazon was a system that grew…
Roundup: Borders Mulling Sale, Blogs to Books
Borders explores possible sale, Fractal Press taps personal finance bloggers for book