A viable and just business model for the Ebook age (Norman Spinrad)
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Hubris, or not, I’ve been asked to write something like this by diverse interested parties, for the American publishing industry from top to bottom—the writers, the publishers, the points of sale—is in the middle stage of a deep crisis it cannot possibly survive in its current configuration.
The times they are a-changing, the question of when will probably be answered after the next Christmas season as ebooks emerge at minimum as a major market force, over 20% of book sales is a conservative guess, so the answer to that one is soon. (...)