New York Times socks writers $1,884 for quoting fewer than 300 words: ‘All the...
Journalists and other writers, including the e-book variety, rely constantly on fair use in quoting big shots such as Donald Trump.
Without fair use, the collective IQ of the writers' output would drop 20 points. Trumpian...
Could Apple app subscription model portend changes to e-book royalties?
Michael W. Perry called my attention to an interesting pair of articles dealing with some newly-announced changes to Apple's iTunes app developer model---one on the Verge and one on MacNN.
The most...
Discount-sale royalties and other first world publishing problems
Yesterday, Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader called my attention to a blog post by UK picture book author James Mayhew concerning how discounts on book prices can affect author royalties....
Does Amazon permit URL linking inside its e-books?
After my post regarding Amazon's crackdown on 'interactive' e-books, I started asking for a clarification of just what this means.
Is any form of URL linking permitted inside an e-book?
How, exactly, is Amazon defining...
‘Smell of books’ perfume flourishes in the e-book age
Apparently it took the advent of e-books to make people fully aware of just how much they loved paper books. The latest evidence of this is the proliferation of perfumes and...
Amazon: Buy a Kindle Paperwhite, get a free paperback
Amazon appears to be offering another limited-time offer bundling deal for Kindle fans and bibliophiles. This time it's a free book (paper variety) with your new Kindle Paperwhite.
As you can see...
Scholarly Open Access Publishers: Beware the bad apples
Many, myself included, have embraced scholarly open access publishing as an antidote to the ills and exploitative practices of mainstream academic, scientific, and scholarly publishing. However, not all scholarly open access...
Amazon gives away Fire tablet free with Comcast service
One of those things you might have expected when tablets get cheap is coming to pass: throwing them in as free bonus items when you sign up for something else. The...
Is Amazon Trying to Kill Interactive E-Books?
My colleague Chris was asking just a few days ago why people are not 'innovating' in e-books these days. Well, here's why: Amazon doesn't want us to. They seem to be...
Copyright Section 108 reform effort could lead to changes for library e-book lending
It appears that 2016 is going to be the year of copyright reform—or at least, more of it than we’ve had in recent years. The latest section of the copyright code...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
