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via walrus-books.com Смотреть, естественно, можно только в iBooks на iPad. Или как PDF ;)

Реклама новой книжки Feral House о масонской Америке.

Web users have been trained long enough to know what they want: everything. That’s the promise of the web. Every book for sale at Amazon. Every search result visible on Google. Every auctioned item right there on eBay. Not piracy. Availability. The music industry got confused about this and decided that people merely wanted to steal music. What’s clear now from the rise of iTunes as well as ad and subscriber-supported services like Spotify is that people will happily pay as long as it brings most everything along for the ride.

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Finally, one of the biggest reasons why the Icelandic publishing industry is so vibrant is almost counter-intuitively that Icelandic authors are underpaid . . . and accept it. Before the translation boom, the only way even bestselling Icelandic authors could expect to make a (slim) living off of their books was through government grants and a day job. via thebookseller.com К вопросу о голодных авторах.

Matt reported that the percentage of ebook sales to total sales on ABA member web sites rose from 0.7% to 5.2% in 2011. That’s a 750% increase, which is impressive even though the Google eBook capability kicked in during that year. But it is also actually understated, because the total volume of business on these sites rose by 82%. So the share increase of 750% is in an environment where total sales nearly doubled.

When I phoned Neil Gaiman last week to ask him about the stramash over Apple’s new iBooks Author app , he said publishing these days was like “the Klondike. Nobody knows what’s going on. All they know is that there’s gold in them that hills and they want to try to get hold of it.” via guardian.co.uk Очень точное сравнение. Не потому что Нил Гейман, а потому, что ровно то же самое, только по-русски, сказал мне мой друг, издатель, который The Guardian не читает, несколько дней назад.

Currents users can find your edition by visiting this link on their device’s browser: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowhN1X/новости_электронного_книгоиздания via google.com Или короткий урл: http://goo.gl/AvhR6

Как писатель я даже заинтересован в том, чтобы мои тексты выходили в электронном виде. Мои книжки продаются за 300—400 рублей. А в электронной версии — за 70—80. «Упадет доход, лучше продавать на бумаге», — говорят мне. Разумеется, доход поначалу будет падать. Но держась за бумажные копии, вы препятствуете изменению мира. А мир меняется к лучшему. Сейчас происходит реальное воплощение мечты Михаила Бакунина, великого русского анархиста, который мечтал об умном союзе автономных личностей.