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  SURVEY: Top Reason Authors Should Go with Traditional Publishers?

  941 readersBy Edward Nawotka In today’s feature story Lisa Buchan of Sparkabook in Wellington, New Zealand meditates on the question of, “given the number of public attacks on the value of publishers, why have so few writers abandoned their existing publishers?” She offers some very compelling reasons why. But what do you think? Take our survey and

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  SURVEY: What New Publishing Business Model Excites You the Most?

  1532 readersCrowd-sourced publishing? Super cheap e-books? Book discovery, social reading retail sites? Which has the most long-term viability? By Edward Nawotka There have been dozens of new publishing-related business models created over the past 12-24 months. Which excited you the most? Which do you think has the most long-term viability. Naturally, we can’t offer a list of all

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  SURVEY: Rate Kindle as a Disruptive Force in Overseas E-book Markets

  1006 readersBy Edward Nawotka Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. When it comes to e-books, few will disagree that Amazon has the strongest brand going. In many ways the word “Kindle” has already become a metonym for “easy-to-use e-reader,” and many people around the world

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  SURVEY: What Is the Top Issue for Frankfurt 2011?

  617 readersBy Edward Nawotka In today’s feature story about previewing what’s on the mind of publishers and literary agents from the UK for Frankfurt 2011, several issues are identified, including e-books, royalties for e-books, territoriality, piracy, agents as publishers, publishers as booksellers. Most of these are perennial issues, save for the issue of agents as publishers, which

• SURVEY: Should Ad-Supported Textbooks Become Standard?

  1050 readersCollege stadiums, classrooms, and cafeterias are plastered with ads by corporations, why not textbooks? By Edward Nawotka Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Every year college students complain about the high cost of textbooks. They feel its an insult to have to spend several hundred,

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  SURVEY: Is the E-ink E-reader Dead in Developing Markets?

  769 readersBy Edward Nawotka Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Today’s feature story looks at the launch of Iba, a new e-reading platform in Brazil. At present the company is focusing its efforts on both tablets and PCs, bypassing the traditional e-reader. Increasingly, in the

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  Poll: Who is Driving the Digital Transition in Publishing?

  3984 readersBy Hannah Johnson Brian Wafawarowa, Executive Director of Publishers’ Association of South Africa, told Publishing Perspectives: I do not think that the e-book shift is being proactively driven by publishers, but by consumer demand. The shift to or inclusion of e-books is still something publishers begrudge. Publishers are comfortable with the analog book and would like to

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  Following Recent Events, Will You Explore the Mid-East and North Africa for Opportunities in 2011?

  882 readersThe landscape for publishers to explore the Middle East and North Africa for opportunities has never been better. By Edward Nawotka Earlier this month on Publishing Perspectives Egyptian e-book publisher Ramy Habeeb argued that Western publishers had a responsibility to bring “pluralism” to the Middle East publishing community, something they can do by participating in the rebirth of the

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  SURVEY: Have You Ever Bought an E-book from Overseas?

  1299 readersE-books are breaking down territories by allowing readers the world over to buy books from anywhere. By Edward Nawotka As compared with 2010, this past year saw the availability of international e-bookstores and digital titles explode. At several of the publishing conferences, people wondered if the proliferation of stores in Europe selling English-language books would impinge on

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  Most Americans Don’t Want to Pay For News

  2988 readersA recent survey conducted by Adweek/Harris Poll found that 4 out of 5 Americans would refuse to pay for online news. of those who’d pay, most (14%) would only pay less than $10 a month and only 2 out of a hundred would pay over $20 a month. This ...