Artigo de Mathew Ingram no site GigaOM fala um pouco sobre as mudanças provocadas pelos livros eletrônicos nas formas de publicação e distribuição de conteúdo e menciona o lançamento de dois serviços que permitem a publicação de livros eletrônicos pelos próprios autores: BookBrewer e Kindle singles.
In some ways, it’s like the early days of the Gutenberg revolution, when authors published short manuscripts and “chapbooks” and everything in between.
The advent of tablets and e-bookstores dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for these kinds of writers, who would previously have had to find an agent and a publisher willing to take them on (or self-publish via the web or a blog), and would have had to pay them a handsome share of any revenue as well. Now, through services like Bookbrewer and Kindle Singles, they can reach what is potentially a much larger audience, and maybe even make some money. Amazon and other e-book publishers pay authors as much as 70 percent of the revenue their books make. The e-book market as a whole continues to grow rapidly; the latest figures from the Association of American Publishers show that sales climbed 172 percent in August.
O artigo completo é interessante e inclui links para diversos outros artigos sobre o assunto: The Evolution of the E-book: When is a Book Not a Book?
Informação via Eoin Purcell, analista da indústria editorial que escreve regularmente na revista The Bookseller.
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