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		<title>OR Books publisher suggests &#8216;disintermediating Amazon&#8217; by selling D2C</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 03:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s another article from an exec of a Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) publisher about “disintermediating Amazon,” this one on Publishers Weekly. John Oakes of OR Books puts Amazon’s success in an interesting perspective when he points out that, when you get right down to it, the main advantage Amazon really has is “a comfortingly familiar Web site” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple submits filing insisting Amazon is the monopolist and Apple helped foster competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 03:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ars Technica reports that Apple has made a 31-page filing (PDF) regarding the Department of Justice’s antitrust proceedings against it and publishers Macmillan and Penguin, the only two of the “agency five” not to settle. Apple’s filing is about what we might have expected from the corporation—it insists that Amazon was the monopolist, Apple negotiated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPG resolves dispute with Amazon; IPG e-books return to Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 03:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishers Lunch reports that the three month standoff between Amazon and the Independent Publishers Group is over. Although IPG President Mark Suchomel declined to discuss the terms of the agreement Amazon and the IPG have reached, the fact that it took three months to reach it does suggest Amazon didn’t get everything its own way—but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make money fast&#8230;by self-publishing Kindle e-books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know you can “get rich quick” selling Kindle e-books? Well, all right, maybe not get rich, but make at least “$1,000 per month” on it? I came across a post on Methods2Earn outlining the idea. Basically, the idea is that you research Amazon’s best-seller lists to find out what people want to buy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ludwig von Mises Institute calls out &#8216;Dead-Tree Luddites&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Libertarian think-tank the Ludwig von Mises Institute is carrying an article by self-published author Genevieve LaGreca about “Dead-Tree Luddites”. But it’s not, as you might expect, about those people who insist they love “the smell of books” and won’t ever read an e-reader, which is the image that phrase immediately brings to mind for TeleRead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon solicits ads for Kindle Fire welcome screen, to the tune of $600,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 03:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Might an ad-supported Kindle Fire be in the offing? Ad Age reports that Amazon has been soliciting ads to appear on the Fire’s welcome screen, according to an executive at an agency Amazon pitched. The ad packages would start at $600,000 and include both Kindle Fire and Kindle with Special Offers ads, going up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If publishers cannot control e-book retail prices, how should they set their own?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum has a rebuttal to a number of recent posts about e-book production costs and price, including the post by Mathew Ingram that I covered here. Though the article is replete with quotes and counter-arguments, but the central thrust seems to be that publishers ought to be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French culture minister Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Mitterrand speaks out against Amazon&#8217;s &#8216;predatory pricing&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big publishers aren’t the only ones concerned about Amazon’s “predatory” e-book pricing practices. It’s also worrying the French. The Bookseller reports that outgoing French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand has written to European Competition commissioner Joaquin Almnunia of his concern that ongoing antitrust investigations could lead to distributors such as Amazon taking unfair advantage. Allowing publishers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon consumer reviews just as accurate as professional reviews, Harvard study suggests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch reports on a new study from the Harvard Business Review that suggests that Amazon reader reviews of books are, on average, at least as good as those of professional book critics. The professionals, the report suggests, may not always have incentive to be completely objective, tending to give better reviews to authors who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon rumored working on front-lit e-ink Kindle, 8.9&#8221; Kindle Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You notice that Amazon seems to be treating Barnes &#38; Noble as its research lab lately? B&#38;N launches a touch-sensitive reader, so does Amazon. B&#38;N comes out with an Android tablet, so does Amazon. Now, if a rumor reported by Reuters can be believed, it seems Amazon is eyeing the front-lit Nook GlowLight as its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge denies Apple, publisher motions to dismiss class-action price-fixing suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of the filing I mentioned yesterday, the judge in the publisher/Apple price-fixing class action has issued a 56-page ruling (PDF). It’s important to note that this is only a preliminary ruling on Apple and the publishers’ motion to have the case thrown out. It doesn’t mean they’re necessarily guilty. As such, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditionally-published author Jessica Park explains why she went self-pub</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I love the manuscript, but…” It seems those words, expressed in a publisher rejection notice, tend to herald one writer after another’s ventures into self-publishing. In this case, Jessica Park, guest-blogging on Elizabeth Spann Craig’s “Mystery Writing is Murder” blog, explains why she took her young-adult novel Flat-Out Love to Amazon self-publishing, where it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing execs, Amazon VP Russ Grandinetti  offer views on future of publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the future of publishing? Or even, of publishers? Here are a couple of articles that offer some interesting perspectives. For starters, the Vancouver Sun has an interesting piece that looks at the shifts brought about by Amazon’s Kindle and e-reader strategy, summarizing the issues facing the publishing industry at the moment. Amazon’s loss-leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are agents still necessary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are agents still necessary in the new e-publishing world? I’m running across a number of people who don’t seem to think so. For example, self-publishing writer Stephen Leather opined in a recent interview with The Bookseller Magazine: I think agents will be the hardest hit by the eBook revolution. There is almost no negotiation with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumor: Ridley Scott optioning self-published Amazon bestseller movie rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How popular is self-published fiction becoming? Apparently popular enough to draw major Hollywood attention. Gossip site Deadline reports that the production company of Ridley (Prometheus, Bladerunner) and Tony (Top Gun) Scott is in the process of snagging the movie rights to the self-published dystopian SF novel Wool by Hugh Howey. Wool seems to be a [...]]]></description>
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