Comments on: Hachette adopts agency pricing model http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: FrancisT http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1155658 FrancisT Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:30:12 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2010/02/04/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/#comment-1155658 er end got chopped off somehow ... while I don’t disagree with Scalzi regarding self-publishing I do think that a new model that combines some elements of SP with elements of the current model is entirely possible. er end got chopped off somehow

… while I don’t disagree with Scalzi regarding self-publishing I do think that a new model that combines some elements of SP with elements of the current model is entirely possible.

]]> By: FrancisT http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1155657 FrancisT Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:28:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2010/02/04/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/#comment-1155657 I'm not at all convinced that current publishing houses are going to weather the transformation to electrons at all. Neither am I particularly convinced that Amazon will either. Amazon's feud with Macmillan has had the interesting side effect of turning the spotlight onto that nasty hidden secret of the book world - how much (or rather how little) the author gets. I've got some related thoughts at my blog - http://www.di2.nu/201002/04.htm - and while I don't disagree with Scalzi regarding self-publishing I do think that I’m not at all convinced that current publishing houses are going to weather the transformation to electrons at all. Neither am I particularly convinced that Amazon will either. Amazon’s feud with Macmillan has had the interesting side effect of turning the spotlight onto that nasty hidden secret of the book world – how much (or rather how little) the author gets.

I’ve got some related thoughts at my blog – http://www.di2.nu/201002/04.htm – and while I don’t disagree with Scalzi regarding self-publishing I do think that

]]> By: Eric Montgomery http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1155646 Eric Montgomery Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:44:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2010/02/04/hachette-adopts-agency-pricing-model/#comment-1155646 Shocker. Shocker.

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