Not exact matches
Even so, there are
catches to these «just follow the yellow brick road» step by step sites, like the site owning the rights to the
author's book for a certain time period or restricting the
author to
only marketing the novel on their site.
Google is hoping that the 5 - 20 page e-books, written by A list
authors, will
catch on in India and are
only charging a few cents for each title.
The
only reason they didn't go through with it was they got
caught price fixing and trying to screw
authors and readers over.
As the
only (to our knowledge) dedicated eReading company that works with local partners around the glob, they were
caught between the rock of WH Smith and the hard place they delivered to their
authors.
Update, June, 9, 8:51 p.m. Having been on the run overseas since the weekend, I'm
only now
catching up with Anthony Watts's attack on Tom Peterson, one of the
authors of a recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate paper.
Apparently I am not the
only one with New York personal injury lawyer Eric Turkewitz
authoring an article on his blog addressing this which even
caught the Wall Street Journal's attention.