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By: Have They Seen The Light? Probably Not Yet. « Not A Mystery

Have They Seen The Light? Probably Not Yet. « Not A Mystery — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:04:37 +0000

[...] weeks ago we castigated the book publishing industry, and in particular Knoff Doubleday, for the idiocy that passed for [...]

By: Bob Gelber

Bob Gelber — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:30:41 +0000

Rebecca,

I agree 100%. But I won’t hold my breath.

Music subscription services are still struggling. The only ‘subscription’ that seems to work is the mobile phone.

Then we are back to the publishers and (MIA) copyright holders in the book world.

I’m thinking the end game will be that authors publish digital works themselves directly thru Amazon and Amazon runs the subscription service. We don’t need your stinking publishers. Disintermediate the publishers altogether!

Bob

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:16:16 +0000

I’d like to see book subscriptions, like Rhapsody does for music. Pay a monthly fee to read anything you want; when you stop paying, the downloaded materials stop working.