On digital comics, e-publishing, and assorted nightmares.
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An interesting breakdown of the ecological consequences of the e-book vs. the printed book. The short version is that you need to buy about 50-100 e-books before it pays for itself, environmentally speaking.

This sounds like it should be a shoo-in for a voracious reader like me, but it's not that simple. The biggest problem I have with e-readers ( Read more... )

The book publishers are making the same mistake the music industry did: they assume the customer is an adversary.

Wary Book Publishers Are Fighting the Future - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

The publishers seem to be picking a fight with the wrong team: their customer. They are punishing the people who buy their content instead of making it simple for ( Read more... )