TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Baen Books http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 13:09:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Baen soon coming to iBooks, finally posts announcements of changes to web site http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baen-soon-coming-to-ibooks-finally-posts-announcements-of-changes-to-web-site/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baen-soon-coming-to-ibooks-finally-posts-announcements-of-changes-to-web-site/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:13:53 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=77415 A month and a half since Baen made the jump to Amazon availability, the publisher is about to add another feather to its cap. On her forum on the Baen Bar, publisher Toni Weisskopf has mentioned that Baen e-books will soon be available DRM-free in Apple’s iBooks store. A formal announcement will be made when [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baen-soon-coming-to-ibooks-finally-posts-announcements-of-changes-to-web-site/feed/ 0 Baen/Amazon deal takes effect December 15 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baenamazon-deal-takes-effect-december-15/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baenamazon-deal-takes-effect-december-15/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:31:28 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=75541 Since I originally posted about Baen’s deal with Amazon, a couple more details of about the deal have come to light. First of all, the deadline for buying any of the old Baen bundles is Saturday, December 15th. That’s when the deal with Amazon goes live, and the old $10, $15, and $18 monthly bundles [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baenamazon-deal-takes-effect-december-15/feed/ 2 Baen inks deal with Amazon, makes major changes to Webscriptions and Free Library http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baen-inks-deal-with-amazon-makes-major-changes-to-webscriptions-and-free-library/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baen-inks-deal-with-amazon-makes-major-changes-to-webscriptions-and-free-library/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:22:58 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=75460 Toni Weisskopf has posted a series of messages to the Baen Bar indicating major changes in the offing for the Baen Ebooks (nee Webscriptions) store. Baen is finally on the verge of getting its titles placed directly into Amazon (and is negotiating with others such as Barnes & Noble, etc.) The problem is, that comes [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/baen-inks-deal-with-amazon-makes-major-changes-to-webscriptions-and-free-library/feed/ 31 E-Book Review: Echoes of Honor (Honor Harrington #8) http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-review-echoes-of-honor-honor-harrington-8/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-review-echoes-of-honor-honor-harrington-8/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:15:35 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-review-echoes-of-honor-honor-harrington-8/ It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I still mean to get the whole series reviewed so it’s time I got around to another one. As with prior reviews in the series, in each review I’ll include spoilers for previous books or stories but not spoil the ending of the current [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-book-review-echoes-of-honor-honor-harrington-8/feed/ 0 Crain’s New York Business profiles Tor DRM-free e-book store plans http://www.teleread.com/drm/crains-new-york-business-profiles-tor-drm-free-e-book-store-plans/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/crains-new-york-business-profiles-tor-drm-free-e-book-store-plans/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:06:15 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/crains-new-york-business-profiles-tor-drm-free-e-book-store-plans/ Crain’s New York Business has a profile of Tor’s plan for a DRM-free e-book store. (The article is paywalled, but you can read it via Google News search.) It summarizes the situation with the DoJ antitrust lawsuit, and points to that suit and the success of the DRM-free Harry Potter e-book store as the reason [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/crains-new-york-business-profiles-tor-drm-free-e-book-store-plans/feed/ 0 D2C offers benefits, challenges for publishers—but most US publishers have not signed on http://www.teleread.com/public-domain/d2c-offers-benefits-challenges-for-publishersbut-most-us-publishers-have-not-signed-on/ http://www.teleread.com/public-domain/d2c-offers-benefits-challenges-for-publishersbut-most-us-publishers-have-not-signed-on/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 05:09:59 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/public-domain/d2c-offers-benefits-challenges-for-publishersbut-most-us-publishers-have-not-signed-on/ Publishing Perspectives has another of those guest-column-cum-self-promotional pieces it runs every so often, this one from Jonas Lennermo, creative director of Publit—the company who provides the e-commerce solution used by Harlequin Scandinavia, as well as several large and 200 small publishers in Scandinavia. Lennermo discusses the benefits of publishers selling their books D2C (Direct To [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/public-domain/d2c-offers-benefits-challenges-for-publishersbut-most-us-publishers-have-not-signed-on/feed/ 2 Libraries change with the digital times http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/libraries-change-with-the-digital-times/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/libraries-change-with-the-digital-times/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 02:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/libraries-change-with-the-digital-times/ I watched Ghostbusters with my parents recently, and as I was watching the first five minutes, featuring a ghost in a big old library, I was struck by how dated that part of the movie is now, with those big card catalog drawers opening and cards spewing out all over. You’d be hard-pressed to find [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/libraries-change-with-the-digital-times/feed/ 0 If publishers cannot control e-book retail prices, how should they set their own? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/if-publishers-cannot-control-retail-prices-how-should-they-set-their-own/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/if-publishers-cannot-control-retail-prices-how-should-they-set-their-own/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 04:45:35 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/if-publishers-cannot-control-retail-prices-how-should-they-set-their-own/ 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 [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/if-publishers-cannot-control-retail-prices-how-should-they-set-their-own/feed/ 6 The miracle of self-publishing http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-miracle-of-self-publishing/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-miracle-of-self-publishing/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:49:20 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-miracle-of-self-publishing/ We live in an age of miracles. When you look at the current state of technology, of medicine, of transportation, that’s true in general (even if few people realize it), but it’s particularly true when it comes to publishing. I’ve lately been working my way through Barry Malzberg’s Engines of the Night, a collection of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-miracle-of-self-publishing/feed/ 1 Backslash backlash: In Carpe Diem, an e-book markup error also affects print editions http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/backslash-backlash-in-carpe-diem-an-e-book-markup-error-also-affects-print-editions/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/backslash-backlash-in-carpe-diem-an-e-book-markup-error-also-affects-print-editions/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 04:57:01 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/backslash-backlash-in-carpe-diem-an-e-book-markup-error-also-affects-print-editions/ We’ve all encountered e-book scanning and markup errors , but most of these errors only affect the e-books themselves. It’s a rare error that actually feeds back into the print editions of the books, too! However, I recently came across just such an error. I was working on the TVTropes page for Sharon Lee and [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/backslash-backlash-in-carpe-diem-an-e-book-markup-error-also-affects-print-editions/feed/ 2 Some reactions to Tor’s DRM-free announcement http://www.teleread.com/drm/some-reactions-to-tors-drm-free-announcement/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/some-reactions-to-tors-drm-free-announcement/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:59:12 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/some-reactions-to-tors-drm-free-announcement/ Yesterday was a day for reactions to the Tor DRM-free announcement, for sure. John Scalzi has a post in which he applauds the move, while featuring a quote from Patrick Nielsen Hayden in which pnh indicates that Tor will in no way be scaling back its efforts to fight piracy just because it’s dropping DRM. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/some-reactions-to-tors-drm-free-announcement/feed/ 0 In wake of Pottermore releases, Harry Potter piracy fought by community, Mike Shatzkin reports http://www.teleread.com/drm/in-wake-of-pottermore-releases-harry-potter-piracy-fought-by-community-mike-shatzkin-reports/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/in-wake-of-pottermore-releases-harry-potter-piracy-fought-by-community-mike-shatzkin-reports/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:25:15 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/in-wake-of-pottermore-releases-harry-potter-piracy-fought-by-community-mike-shatzkin-reports/ In Mike Shatzkin’s latest essay about publishing, collecting his insights about this year’s London Book Fair, an interesting paragraph leaps out at me. Shatzkin was talking to Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne about the DRM-free release of the Harry Potter books, and reports being startled by what Redmayne had to say about Potter piracy: Apparently, Potter [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/in-wake-of-pottermore-releases-harry-potter-piracy-fought-by-community-mike-shatzkin-reports/feed/ 1 Tor/Forge e-books to be completely DRM-free by July http://www.teleread.com/drm/torforge-e-books-to-be-completely-drm-free-by-july/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/torforge-e-books-to-be-completely-drm-free-by-july/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:40:58 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/torforge-e-books-to-be-completely-drm-free-by-july/ Well, that didn’t take very long. The first major publishing imprint has announced it is going to go entirely DRM-free. Tor/Forge has just posted a press announcement to Tor.com that its entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free, both through the current vendors and through retailers that can only sell DRM-free e-books, by July [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/torforge-e-books-to-be-completely-drm-free-by-july/feed/ 8 Fear of piracy leads to copyright warning scare tactics http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fear-of-piracy-leads-to-copyright-warning-scare-tactics/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fear-of-piracy-leads-to-copyright-warning-scare-tactics/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fear-of-piracy-leads-to-copyright-warning-scare-tactics/ Is paranoia over piracy leading publishers to extremes that could turn off their readers? Book reviewer Rebecca Blain was nonplussed to open a review copy of an e-book and discover a copyright warning that spanned several pages and included a threat of $250,000 fines for sharing it. She followed up with a post quoting the [...]

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