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“Fungibility” of Books

Tags: agency model Books doj ebooks Fungibility fungible Internet Studies publishers publishing wholesale model

Lots of great material to argue and shout and scream at on the Web over the past week, but the one I want to look at? Konrath versus Lipskar, and the horror of “fungibility.”
JA Konrath’s post is responding to Writers House president Simon Lipskar’s “all books are fungible” theory (written in support of big publishers [...]

Fantastic e-notions

Tags: amazon Apple Books ebooks Internet Studies Price-fixing publishers publishing

A small post on reactions to the DOJ lawsuit, summated by CBS
“Ironically, consumers are likely to win no matter what happens with the case because the self-publishing gate is open and the horses are out of the barn.”
… really? “consumers will win”?
I can quite reliably say that publishers will lose, that’s one thing. But [...]