A viable and just business model for the ebook age | Norman Spinrad At Large
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Norman Spinrad toujours excellent analyse la nouvelle économie des #ebooks et du livre en général :
What goes around comes around, and the brick and mortar bookstore chains having decimated the independent bookstores, are now disappearing themselves
... et défend le format #ePub, non pas pour ses qualités techniques, mais pour son caractère politique : il s’agit d’une plateforme technologique « de base » utilisée partout :
But Barnes & Noble chose the ePub format for its ebooks and that is an open standard, and not just for the Barnes & Noble line and its Nook. The Nook will read a few other open formats as well, and most of the other ereaders will read ePub books. So here we have two strong but quite different business models competing—the vertical monopolies of Amazon/mobi/Kindle/ and I-Pad/ Apple and the open market format based on ePub and semi-universal ebook readers.
And together, they are changing the power relations between writers and publishers ultimately in favor of the writers, to the point where if publishers don’t change the ebooks rights clauses in their contracts, they will be committing seppuku.