Publishing Is Broken, We're Drowning In Indie Books - And That's A Good Thing

August 15, 2012

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Three and a half years ago, I had an e-reader unwillingly thrust upon me. I ignored it at first; shunned it. Then one day I was packing for a long trip and it came on me in a flash that if I used the damned thing I wouldn’t have to limit myself to five pounds of books in my luggage. Since then I read more ebooks than physical books. I buy a lot more books, too. Last year I noticed that books were getting cheaper, but the writing was getting worse.
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Source: Forbes.com

Companies Mentioned:

	Amazon.com		Barnes & Noble Inc.		Facebook
	Showtime		Simon and Schuster Inc.		Waldenbooks

People Mentioned:

Brad Thor	Sue Grafton	John Kennedy Toole
Hugh Howey	Amanda Hocking	John Locke
Robert Gottleib	Gottlieb	Joseph Heller
Robert Bidinotto	E.L. James	Olen Steinhauer
Ridley Scott	Harry Potter	Christina Aguilera
Adam Levine	Georgia O Keeffe	Louis C.K.
Sean McCarthy	Patton Oswalt	McNally Jackson
Lawrence Block	Margaret Muir	Ben Franklin
Thomas Paine

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