INDEX // mb Ideas on Publishing Books in Canada (and other attempts to write good)

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Against Copyright Creep

Lawrence Lessig nails the core problem with the Google Book Search deal. A few weeks ago, Lessig was interviewed for the show On The Media on NPR. He tells the story of taking his daughter to hospital and doing some research on what might be wrong with her…
And I got to the critical point in [...]

Bad Monkeys

A 2006 NFB vid from Jo Meuris (via Kerry Clare)

A Note To The Trades

PaidContent has reposted a comment from a guy that has some opinions about Variety. It is an insightful post especially for anyone interested in the future of trade magazines like Publisher’s Weekly or The Quill and Quire. Here is a choice bit:
You are Variety. A great name. So where is the braintrust to kick everyone’s [...]

Here Is A Novel Theory

DeCloet in the Globe: Apple, Microsoft, and Google carry nearly no debt. They need to regularly reinvent their products  so they keep lots of cash on-hand. Old media companies that are burdened by debt don’t innovate and therefore are at risk in troubled times.
I don’t know if I buy that. It makes sense that high-debt [...]

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