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Don’t Believe the E-Book Monopoly Ploy

Posted on: April 27th, 2012 by Warren Adler No Comments

Don’t believe all that hype about government interference that is designed to foster an Amazon monopoly of the ebook business. What the six major publishers were alleged to have done was collude in fixing prices that, if true, was a desperate act that they must have known would fall afoul of anti-trust laws.

The new ploy by book publishers is to characterize Amazon as a monopoly poised to take over and dictate terms and run rampant over those who create ebook content. That is like saying Starbucks is a monopoly because it currently dominates the coffee retail business.

The Last Good Christmas

Posted on: October 5th, 2010 by Warren Adler 4 Comments

This will probably be the last good Christmas for the big box bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Borders and many of the book chains that one encounters in major airports.

I say this with a sincere sense of regret and sadness. The love of books, both as a writer, a reader and a collector has dominated my life. As a young man my greatest joy was to browse through bookstores, especially those second hand bookstores that once lined the streets not far from New York University, my alma mater, where I now teach novel writing.

The Bookstore Implosion

Posted on: August 13th, 2010 by Warren Adler 7 Comments

The news that Barnes and Noble is putting itself up for sale and will be using its floor space to sell toys and other items spells the death knell for publishing and bookselling as we have known it in our time.

It was, of course, as predictable as sunrise and comes as no surprise to those of us that have been following these trends over the past decade. Indeed, it is measurable by my own experience. I digitized my thirty odd works of fiction years ago and helped Sony launch the first e-reader at the Las Vegas International Consumer Electronics show in 2007.

Tag: Barnes and Noble

Don’t Believe the E-Book Monopoly Ploy

The Last Good Christmas

The Bookstore Implosion

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