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ISBW #141 – Amazon and iPad / Ursula Vernon Interview

By On February 11, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Featured, Interview, Podcast

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My apologies for having a podcast about something timely and then back-burner-ing it for other things. I still think it’s relevant, especially when we pull in the iPad discussion. If you haven’t followed the news, the Macmillan Amazon [...]

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Amazon/Macmillan: The Great Kerfuffle of 2010

By On February 4, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Musings, News, Non-ISBW

It’s been fascinating to see the pissing war that’s been Amazon and Macmillan. If you’re an author and don’t know what I’m talking about, I recommend getting acquainted quickly. In short: Macmillan wants to do a ranged price of ebooks (new releases around $15, and older books much lower, like $6.) Amazon’s response was to [...]

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Why #amazonfail matters

By On April 13, 2009 · 20 Comments · In Musings

As of Monday morning (Eastern time), we still don’t know if the Amazon issues this weekend were a glitch, homophobia (and disabilityphobia and feministphobia and rapesurvivorphobia), or outside attack. Some people are willing to give the benefit of the doubt pointing out that the failing possibly came from the weakness of large companies [...]

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