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Digital books, streaming music, apps that allow people to compare prices at brick-and-mortar stores with the price on Amazon.com. The more we talk about these things, the more I feel like we're having the same conversation over and over again with a slightly new twist each time: how to think about the future and the co-evolution of society and technology in a time of rapid change. It’s not an easy conversation to have, and yet it’s really the foundation for everything from anti-piracy legislation like SOPA to understanding how the internet can have an impact on a musician’s paycheck.
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I've got a feeling that there's a more important reason for griping: the strategy of demanding DRM everywhere is going to boomerang, inflicting horrible damage on the very companies who want it. 
Amazon has been busy disrupting the traditional publishing market by encouraging self-publishing and signing authors to its own in-house imprint, but author Charles Stross argues that publishers themselves handed Amazon its biggest weapon in this... 
The publishing world needs some new language that describes what happens and, more importantly, what is possible when the words are separated from the paper. |
The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls... This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers. The USA's main funding agency for health-related research is the National Institutes of Health, with a $30bn annual budget. The NIH has a public access policy that says taxpayer-funded research must be freely accessible online. This means that members of the public, having paid once to have the research done, don't have to pay for it again when they read it – a wholly reasonable policy, and one with enormous humanitarian implications because it means the results of medical research are made freely available around the world. Via Wildcat2030 ![The Content Wrangler » Blog Archive » [Infographic] eBooks: Publishing Industry Statistics | Future of Publishing | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/MNiiNyJqCLcnxKbvSpF_GDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Skyrocketing sales of Kindles, iPads, smartphones, and new eReader-based devices are driving record-breaking eBook sales. This infographic, brought to you by The Content Wrangler, explores the impact the digital publishing revolution is having on both book publishing revenues and the ways publishers operate.
Amazon's founder talks with Steven Levy about the new Kindle Fire, cloud computing, social media, cultural pioneering and sending people into space. 
Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution. |
