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March 2, 2012 12:46 am GMT
The independent book world has been beset on all sides recently. When the first e-publishers began to go to bat for independent and self-published authors, the writing world rejoiced. For too long as they rapacious vanity press taken their money and offered little in return. There is very little up-front investment for self-published authors except for a good story and a little HTML gumption and Amazon, Paypal, and Barnes & Noble (and Apple) made it easy to publish anything, any time. The market was critic and the writer revelled in the spoils. Then things changed.Most recently Seth Godin bumped up against Apple's publishing guidelines when he added links to Amazon books that Apple does not sell inside his self-published ebook. There can be arguments on either side for Godin's position that the contents of his books are his and his alone to control. However, another brewing scandal points to outright censorship.
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The independent book world has been beset on all sides recently. When the first e-publishers began to go to bat for independent and self-published authors, the writing world rejoiced. For too long as they rapacious vanity press taken their money and offered little in return. There is very little up-front investment for self-published authors except for a good story and a little HTML gumption and Amazon, Paypal, and Barnes & Noble (and Apple) made it easy to publish anything, any time. The market was critic and the writer revelled in the spoils. Then things changed.Most recently Seth Godin bumped up against Apple's publishing guidelines when he added links to Amazon books that Apple does not sell inside his self-published ebook. There can be arguments on either side for Godin's position that the contents of his books are his and his alone to control. However, another brewing scandal points to outright censorship.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Vr_ULUZGWE8/
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