Stanza, Lexcycle and Amazon

People have spent a lot of time chatting and arguing about digital publishing recently. The Bookseller in fact recently invited us all to attend an overpriced conference on the subject. No doubt many there looked grave at the prospect of increased piracy. I am sure too that many spoke strongly about maintaining eBook prices – and maybe a few argued for lowering them. I would probably have slept through these bits.

I feel that piracy is an unescapable part of getting a massive audience through the internet, that DRM would hamper this process, and that eBooks are grossly overpriced across the board. Having said that I also appreciate as the publishing dust is yet to settle, information services must tread carefully, and keep the old eyes open. I warn now that the biggest threat to the whole caboodle is taking place in the corridors of Amazon head office (no I don’t mean the discount thing).

The Digitisation of British Trade Publishing

Look closely and you will notice that this blog claims to be relevant to publishing. Look closer and you’ll see an interest in digital publishing; the result of a summer spent writing my MSc dissertation on the subject.

For posterity and comments I have linked the principle components of that dissertation in the rest of this post. I have even slapped in the abstract first so you can see if you want to go on and read the rest!

Eureka!

What I think we are lacking here is a sensible and clear direction in which to take this blog.

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