A couple articles you all might find interesting.
John Makinson, the CEO of the Penguin Group, wrote an op-ed entitled "
Apple's iPad and the Evolution of Books" that appeared in Monday's edition of the Wall Street Journal. Marion Maneker of Slate responded with "
Penguin CEO Needs a Good Editor". Maneker's article made one assertion that I hope is true --
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"Already agents are threatening to pre-publish e-books and sell print distribution rights to publishers on their big fiction projects. These twin forces will leave publishers distributing print books in the future and trying to exploit the remaining library of copyrights that they hold."
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