ebook -Amazon weakness -production
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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E-books Do Not 'Cost Nothing To Produce'
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-40396
http://tragicrighthip.com/2012/04/25/a-girl-in-publishing-costs-nothing-to-produce-harumph/
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-books-do-not-cost-nothing-to-produce/
[Almost a good analysis; but then assuming ebooks are only made from pbooks.]
Today is not tomorrow (or, how to beat Amazon)
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-40386
http://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/today-is-not-tomorrow/
'...Amazon could end up dominating an ebook market that more resembles the modern day comic book direct market than a mass medium: a shrinking niche industry that caters to a limited number of expert readers....'
https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/4SZCB7kk68J#107033731246200681024/posts/4SZCB7kk68J
'...But what I found most interesting was the notion that by wiping out the ecosystem that brings in new readers, Amazon's ebook business could end up in a downward spiral due to the lack of new readers....'
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Happy is the man who escapes the critics by leaving his literary masterpiece in the ink. - Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Business Men: John Jacob Astor.
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