Publishers rewrite book (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Crain's New York Business ^ | May 24, 2009 | Matthew Flamm

[abb]

Last week, an auction for a book by Capt. Richard Phillips, the merchant-ship hero who saved his crew from pirates, drew top bids of around $500,000

[abb]

Quite a few books are online on Google.

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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/200905/1735/
Journalists must emerge from a culture of failure in order to survive

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003976406
Huntington ‘Herald-Dispatch’ Cuts 15% of Workforce

[nina0113]

...but he was also in the middle of his divorce, and his soon-to-be ex wife was going to get 50% of everything that had sprung from the time they were living together...

Also his share of some sports team - the Ravens? - so he tried to force the property division through before the divorce so as to cut her out of that, too, but IIRC, that didn't work.

[nina0113]

About three-quarters of the books I own are out-of-print. I have to really like an in-print book to keep a copy at home. The library has a lot more space than I do, and now that ours has on-line requesting, anything I want to re-read is only a few clicks away.

[abb]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/24/us-press-publishing-newspapers
Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1231224-4950-11de-9e19-00144feabdc0.html
Newspapers’ future

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/nikos_konstandaras/2009/05/newspapers_paperless_future.html
Newspapers’ Paperless Future

[MediaMole]

What could someone write in a book about Britney that hasn’t already been posted on the internet?

It would require a speculum and I really don't want to be exposed to it.

[abb]

You owe me a new keyboard!!

[abb]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/22/newspaper.coin.machines/
Newspaper vending boxes feel economy’s slide

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hPQfCc1c0-Z7ZUbd84MXaGTReNwwD98CNP1G0
Online magazine tries to be a lab for media future

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

http://www.paperbackswap.com/

Free books for the price of US postage.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Lionizing Phillips would have made 0bama look bad.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

There are more at gutenberg.org and scribd.com.

[allmendream]

And how many people interested in, like, Brittany Spears, would, like, read a book?

[LikeLight]

Amazon people treated her very well from the beginning to the upcoming publication.

Of course they treated her well, she's a paying customer. Amazon is strictly a pay-to-play deal.

[abb]

And how many people interested in, like, Brittany Spears, would, like, read a book?

Indeed. Carried further, how many of them could even read?

[valkyrieanne]

Why buy books when there is so much to read online?