Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing

[Mark Kohut]

The major publishers are trying to do what they do with fewer and fewer people. They shrink. They have seen the future
and it is impoverished. They pay less for the books they buy. They reject more than they ever did. 
 
The story of Amazon's hardball tactics is another in "successful" business stories. Bigfooted the whole pub industry. Bezos
(and his people) are smarter than all of publishing. 
 
But small publishers blossom and self-publishing grows like good grass. It is, among other things, the democratization of 
the word, so to speak. Gassett: Revolt of the Masses (when someone said Revolt really meant Thrust or like). 
 
One future of publishing will be modules of people around authors (or just author) who will work for the author's books:
agent, editor (if agent isn't), copyeditor, publicist(s), techie, sales person(s), etc.
 
 
 
 

From: Bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing

P.S.  -  and distributors and whomever else thinks they are entitled to take a bite out of the proceeds of the author's labor. 


On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Bekah wrote:

> One more thought on all this -  The thing that is screwed up about ebooks has nothing to do with the books or the device,  it's the proprietary interests of the publishers (as usual). 
> 
> Bek
> 
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