blogation on the penguin/amazon war

[walkitout]

http://ireaderreview.com/2010/05/11/the-whole-amazonrandom-house-vs-applepenguin-conflagration/

Try to ignore the subject/verb number mismatch -- it's a good analysis.

I'll be editing this repeatedly.

Not strictly speaking on the war:

http://magnificentoctopus.blogspot.com/2010/05/future-of-book.html

But wacky. I agree with the blogger's point: the confusion is the salient takeaway from that discussion, and provides a lot of insight into the book industry. They're acting like idiots because they honestly cannot get past the book as a physical object. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, yet I am. Some days, I feel like there are no adults out there anymore, just older children. I suspect that this is only going to get worse over time.

There was also a moderately amusing blogger who pointed to a May 20 FT article in which a Penguin guy was saying how important it was to sell on as many platforms as possible to avoid piracy becoming entrenched. Because, funny? Right?

But a whole lot less commentary on this topic than I would have expected. Maybe I'm not searching for this stuff the right way.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Maybe they should do like some of the cereal manufacturers and pirate their own stuff, so as to capture all the market niches! I've been getting Square Shaped Corn (I kid you not, that's what it's called) for a dollar forty-nine a box that I swear is just Corn Chex repackaged -- not a bit different. I may be wrong about that one, but I know some of the knock-off brands are made of the same stuff in the same factories.