"The road we took here is washed out." Five Things for April 25, 2024
Tag: Ebooks
Five Things: March 14, 2024
"But there was a catch." Five things for March 14, 2024.
Five Things: February 29, 2024
"You should only do it because you love it." Five things for February 29, 2024.
On library ebook licenses, patron demand, and power dynamics
Meanwhile, libraries have generally proven reluctant to use their power to shape the demand curve and shift digital budgets away from expensive Big 5 bestsellers, even when it means sacrificing diversity and depth in their own digital collections.
Five Things: December 14, 2023
"Comixology was temporary pain relief, never the cure." Five Things: December 14, 2023.
Five Things: March 30, 2023
"A new economic engine for culture." Five things for March 30, 2023. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Maybe Publishers Should “Love” Libraries a Little Less?
It's truly amazing how publishers who routinely claim, "We love libraries!" every summer at ALA Annual — the conference many of them hope will replace their own failed Book Expo America — find it so much easier to fight those same libraries in court, on multiple fronts, rather than figuring out how to come to the table and negotiate in good faith with such a critical partner.
Five Things: March 16, 2023
"They never liked you or what you had to say." Five things for March 16, 2023. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Five Things: December 1, 2022
Five things for December 1, 2022. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Leanpub’s Frontmatter Podcast: It’s Me, Again!
This time around, we skipped the origin story and jumped right into things. Epp let me rattle on about Comics Plus (aka the day job), Panorama Project and libraries, DOJ vs. PRH, and Twitter — and then cleaned it all up so I sound reasonably coherent. It's also on video this time, which caught me by surprise as you may be able to tell from the hat I'm wearing — I was a couple of weeks overdue for a haircut!