e-Commerce Writers and Academicians

e-Commerce Writers and Academicians

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  • Stefan Schmollack
    Stefan Schmollack    Group moderator
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    Commercialization of Knowledge: Can You Actually “Sell” an E-book? How You Answer Affects Your Revenue Assumptions
    "Certain DRM solutions like Amazon’s lending feature do take the analogy of physical books a bit farther. If you loan a book to someone via the Kindle, you don’t have it for the two weeks it’s on your friend’s Kindle. But there are deeper commercial questions at play here, many of which bear on the contracts executed years ago between publishers and authors — contracts that didn’t contemplate the existence of a robust e-book marketplace."

    "Can You Actually “Sell” an E-book? How You Answer Affects Your Revenue Assumptions"
    Posted by Kent Anderson under Authors, Books, Business Models, Marketing, Reading, Technology, Usability, World of Tomorrow | Tags: Book, Business, Digital rights management, E-book, License, publishing
    http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/02/23/can-you-actual...
    Post Date: Feb 23, 2011 at 5:30 am
    the scholarly kitchen, Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

    "Even though authors don’t sell their copyrights to publishers (they license their use) and publishers don’t sell inventory or even production masters to ebook resellers (they license them to replicate and distribute the publishers’ ebook files), the fiction that Kindle or Nook or Kobo or Google or iBookstore is selling the book to you or me will persist. If we had truth in labeling here, it would make the restrictions comprehensible."

    "The Shatzkin Files: From where I sit, you can’t actually “sell” an ebook"
    Posted by Mike Shatzkin on February 12, 2011 at 5:23 pm · Under General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain, eBooks
    http://www.idealog.com/blog/from-where-i-sit-you-cant-actual...
    • 01 Apr 2011, 3:55 pm
  • Stefan Schmollack
    Stefan Schmollack    Group moderator
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    Re: Commercialization of Knowledge: Can You Actually “Sell” an E-book? How You Answer Affects Your Revenue Assumptions
    See also:
    Group newsletter (and follow-ups): Commercialization of Knowledge: Can You Actually “Sell” an E-book? How You Answer Affects Your Revenue Assumptions
    https://www.xing.com/net/ecomwriteracademic/newsletters-arch...
    • 01 Apr 2011, 4:15 pm