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	<title>TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics &#187; Jason Davis</title>
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		<title>5 reasons Apple&#8217;s touch App Store approach is the beginning of the end for iBooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further from yesterday’s news, the argy-bargy continues with the Sony Reader iPhone app and Apple. After several posts, updates, claims and counterclaims, tech blogs *Mashable*, Engadget, TechCrunch and others are starting to agree on the nub of the issue. The story so far So, yesterday the news broke that Sony’s apps had been rejected by the Apple app store. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Publishing Adventure: When You Don’t Quite Sell One Million Ebooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: we covered the beginning of  this story on December 17 here. PB Regular readers will remember Simon Smithson and Will Entrekin and their crazy self-publishing ebook experiment. Their goal was to sell a whopping 1.1m copies of their ebook Sparks, at $0.99 in six weeks. Set tough goals much, fellas? So, it’s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Acquisition Hints at Ebook Distribution Portals into Ebookstore, Other Dimensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch broke the story earlier today that Google has just snapped up a tiny firm called Ebook Technologies that has produced, among other ebook-related tools, software for managing the distribution of ebooks. The description of the company’s products are a little on the vague corporate-speak side, but it sounds a little like they build the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The top ebook self-publishers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been following J. A. Konrath for a while, and have enjoyed him railing against traditional publishing in a much more vocal and high-profile way that I ever have. Naturally, many haven’t enjoyed his work as much – and I would think that would include almost all of traditional (read “paper”) publishing itself. He’s long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Google ebookstore rep hints at timetable for Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got off the phone with Mark Tanner, who is Google’s ebooks rep in Australia. He’s ensconced down in Sydney in the Googleplex (Aust version) in Pyrmont. Interesting guy. He’s the man charged with getting the Google Ebookstore successfully launched here and publishers and retail partners signed up. He emailed me the other day and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebooks take the fun out of giving?  Well allow me to retort &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, missives like this one entitled “How the rise of e-readers takes the fun out of giving books” from the Canadian Globe and Mail by Leah McLaren pop up and bounce around the web. They make me chuckle. Their common theme is that, essentially, you can’t wrap ebooks and stick them under your Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View From Down Under: A response to Smashwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ebook-related interwebs are buzzing with news that Mark Coker and his Smashwords ebook-publishing site is adopting the anti-competitive, price-fixing “agency model” favoured by publishing monoliths everywhere. He wrote a long and detailed missive on the Smashwords blog the other day, justifying the move, and if we didn’t know any better, after reading it you’d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View from down under: What I&#8217;m thankful for &#8211; that pirated copy of my book</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/piracy/view-from-down-under-what-im-thankful-for-that-pirated-copy-of-my-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day or so after those in the US finished celebrating Thanksgiving, I had reason to thank my lucky stars for pirates. In particular, the ebook pirate who ripped off my book and posted it on a well-known non-legitimate download site. I’d name the site, but I don’t think that’s the done thing. People can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View From Down Under: Australia on cusp of entering ebook &#8220;first world&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colour me excited. In recent months, a few things have happened in our sunburnt country that have left it teetering on the brink of the ebook mainstream. And they said it would never happen in our backwards, sundrenched, animals-made-from-bits-of-other-animals land. So look out North America, Britain and others … Here are five reasons why we’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View from Down Under: Borders AU slashes ebook prices to bite Apple on market share</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/view-from-down-under-borders-au-slashes-ebook-prices-to-bite-apple-on-market-share/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little more than a day since the launch of paid Aussie titles in Apple’s local iBookstore, Borders has hit back with price cuts across their ebook range. Due to the “old publishing” paradigm of geographical restriction, Borders in Australia can’t formally guarantee to beat Amazon’s price on ebooks, as they do (incl. postage) with paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian ebooks market expanding, seeing agency model creep</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s announcement of the first Australian paid content released into Apple’s iBookstore has been met with a mixed response locally. In a market only boasting one major player – REDgroup Retail, with their Angus &#038; Robinson and Borders/Kobo offering – the more the merrier, right? Maybe. Some are worried about Apple propensity to adopt the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View From Down Under</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upbeat outlook Despite all the RED(group) ink, the firm’s communications manager Malcolm Neil said the company was “relatively happy with the result in a tough market”. “We took $30m in writedowns, and a large part of that was CD and DVD inventory,” he said. REDgroup&#8217;s balance sheet also suffered under the weight of a $24m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The view from Down Under: Booki.shâ€™s In-Browser Reader Brings ePub to Kindle, Anywhere Else</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got an email from the team behindBooki.sh – a new in-browser HTML5 ebook-reading platform. They’re out of Melbourne – Come on, Aussies! – and they’ve used open-source HTML5 Monocle software to create a nice way to read ebooks in you browser – any browser – and/or on your phone. Is it a platform or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View From Down Under: Glimmer of Light at the End of Borders&#8217; tunnel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I had a long exchange with REDgroup Retail’s head of publicity, Malcolm Neil, about the company’s efforts in almost single-handedly dragging the country into the ebook era You can read the post here, but the upshot is that they are currently chasing a deal with Hachette, who are the only publishers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View from Down Under:  the Four Authors of the Apocalypse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m building a service that will allow authors to sell their backlist (and side-project) ebooks directly to their readers, without having to set up a shopfront themselves. I’ll tell you why. I have been inspired by the self-publishing success of Joe Konrath, and others, but that’s not why I’m doing this. What spurred me into [...]]]></description>
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