Chris Webb

No Starch Tries No Cost with Free Apple e-books via Bittorrent

Many publishers are struggling with the idea of free content, and how it fits into their traditional business strategy. Square peg, round hole – the model needs to change, but that’s another post. When it comes to electronic content, the issue of DRM arises as well – how do you protect your IP [...]

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The Radiohead Model for Book Publishers

Radiohead’s “pay what you think we deserve” experiment has been the topic of much discussion lately.  Of course, as a content publisher I am interested in how such a model might look for my industry – book publishing.  A small independent publisher, Another Sky Press has been using a very similar model for their books [...]

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Kassia Krozser Ruined Today’s Blog Post

Like many a geek, I feverishly refreshed web pages during yesterday’s Apple event – waiting to get that next scrap of gadgety goodness Steve Jobs throws our way every so often.  The new iPod touch is actually the first iPod I have ever actually wanted, and I immediately started thinking about the applications one could [...]

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