Chris Webb

Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to be Available on Mobile Phones

Did you feel that? That was a tremor in the publishing world. There have been many of them over the past several months, but yesterday’s announcement from Amazon could be especially game changing in my opinion. Amazon announced plans to make its Kindle titles available for a variety of mobile phones. Earlier this year they announced [...]

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My Glamorous Publishing Life

I’ll keep this short. The inspiration for this post comes from yet another a recent NYT article on the demise of Publishing (go ahead and read it – I’ll wait.) When I read the comments of my colleague Ellen Gerstein, I knew I had to throw my two cents in as well. The publishing life described [...]

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Thinking About Borders No-Returns Deal with HarperStudio

It was widely reported this week that Borders has agreed to accept books from HarperStudio as non-returnable.  For those who don’t know, books sold to almost every bookseller can generally be returned to the Publisher for full credit.  In fact, this has been the norm since the 1930s so this arrangement between Borders is unusual [...]

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