Jimmy Guterman at O’Reilly takes Penguin to task for not going free with their out-of-copyright classics. The point about using the medium to your advantage is well taken, but unless I am mistaken O’Reilly has yet to set up a torrent tracker for their content. Penguin didn’t have the stones to go free, but Guterman [...]
With the latest cover story (issue 16.03) Wired continues to poke the sleeping giant that is the publishing industry. Will publishers wake up? Or will they continue to lazily swat, like a pestering fly, at Wired’s braintrust?
Hello Captain Obvious
In the The Long Tail, Wired’s Chris Anderson stated that profitability in publishing was about backlist. Well [...]