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Are Digital Book Pirates Ahoy?

Martyn Daniels's picture
Friday 15th January

Today’s trade press is littered once more with assumptions about the state of book piracy and its impact on revenues and the market. This is an emotive subject which has many issues, much sensitivity and is often divorced of real facts. 

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Good Times

Agent's picture
Wednesday 13th January

My first column of the year in the British publishing trade magazine The Bookseller has just been published - reproduced here...

 

Call me crazy, but I'm wildly optimistic about...

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The Great Book Bank Robbery: Right On Chinese Authors

Martyn Daniels's picture
Monday 11th January

So whe

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eInk Today But Gone Tomorrow?

Martyn Daniels's picture
Sunday 10th January

It now appears that anyone electronics firm standing has created their own ebook reader. Everywhere you turn you find a new one and as we have said many times, differentiating between them is very difficult and even keeping tabs on them is now getting ridiculous. So is this a good thing or a bad...

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Your Library Needs You

Martyn Daniels's picture
Wednesday 6th January

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Is The Author Victim?

Martyn Daniels's picture
Monday 4th January

In the article which was published in the New York Times today,‘There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen’,Jonathan Galassi, the President of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, expressed his views on the current Random House...

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2020 Vision: digital publishing predidictions Part 3

Martyn Daniels's picture
Saturday 2nd January

Having already made seven predictions for 2010 and into the next decade, we continue and offer our final three. 

8.Publishers

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2020 Vision: Digital Predictions for 2010 Part 2

Martyn Daniels's picture
Friday 1st January

Yesterday we looked at the first four predictions for publishing in 2010 and into the next decade. Today we continue and offer a further three. Again we can’t predict the next decade but we are confident of what we see in the year ahead. 

5. Digital Platforms, Channels and Consumers...

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2020 Vision: Digital Predictions for 2010: Part 1

Martyn Daniels's picture
Thursday 31st December

So Christmas and another year are over and the New Year beckons. We are now at the end of a decade that has given us the iPhone, Facebook, MySpace, Celebrity everything, instant ‘x factor’ stars, Harry Potter, Dan Brown and Twitter. Will we be equally moved in the next ten years and will we...

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Random Once Again Claim Digital Rights

Martyn Daniels's picture
Sunday 13th December

We all remember the last attempt that Random House made to stake out their claim that all the rights they had included digital. It blew up in a case between them and Rosetta in 2001 and they failed in court to prove their case and it was eventually settled out of court with Rosetta being granted...

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