Think DRM is a necessary evil? Love the iPod model for e-books---built around Amazon's Kindle? Today's your day. I'm very pleased to publish some pro-Kindle commentary from Evan Schnittman, vice president of business development and rights at Oxford University Press (photo). Discussion's more fun with different viewpoints included, and given all my skepticism about DRM and an Amazon - dominated iPoddish model for the book industry, I encourage other defenders to submit their own essays to the TeleBlog. Meanwhile thanks to Evan for taking time to present his side! - David Rothman. David kindly linked on November 21 to my...

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Moderator's note: Evan Schnittman is Vice President of Business Development and Rights for the Academic and USA Divisions of Oxford University Press. - DR Having just returned from Frankfurt and participated in the obsessive focus on digital issues there, it occurred to me that the publishing industry today is in a position rarely if ever experienced before; we suddenly have the upper hand. To wit, there are three wars that are raging today (and one on the horizon) which are changing the nature of publishing and putting us in the drivers' seat; discoverability, Print on Demand (POD), and repositories. All of these...

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