News in the E-book World

[alanajoli]

This has been a big week for e-book news, most of it coming from the old price-fixing suit (discussed here and here) about the agency model is now down to Apple. According to Andrew Albanese at PW, "Penguin Finally Settles Price-Fixing Charges, Will Avoid Trial." Apparently, since Penguin was the largest publisher involved in the suit, their

Comments

[cerebralpaladin]

Amazon, not Apple, in the third paragraph. I think it's a very interesting development--we'll need to see where it goes.

[digitalemur]

I'm just glad E Ink is still in the game because it's based in the Commonwealth and has operations in South Hadley, the next town over from me.

On fanfiction

[kattw]

Not that I read much of it at all, but as with any literature, some authors are better than others (or will, at least, be more likely than others to craft stories that any given reader wants to get at). So why would somebody pay? Because their favorite author starts charging, and stops putting stuff online for free.

There are, as you intimate, a number of people out there who aren't necessarily that good at creating a world, but can do pretty swell things with one if it's already been made. And if they can turn a profit, why not?