Not exact matches
It was
widely praised
by major media including National Public Radio, The New York Times, Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly, ALA Booklist and many
others.
Based on the
widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009
by a group of ebook developers,
publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and
other content.
And while some consider digital
publishers the «farm team» for the pro leagues, a place where writers can cut their teeth and prove themselves worthy of being
widely published
by the majors,
others are skipping the middlemen and defining success on their own terms.
Black, Moschovakis, and
other publishers hope that the free - PDF approach will help make poetry more
widely available, particularly to readers in geographically isolated locations, and grant more freedom to writers and
publishers by working outside the traditional publishing system.
It is
widely reported that these
other services pay
publishers by the borrow, a costly proposition for the services and a bargain for avid readers.
On the
other hand, it locks them into a particular brand of DRM, and exposes the
publishers to the vendors efforts to create monopolies and polyopsonies, as described
by Charles Stross in the
widely - reported articles, «What Amazon's ebook strategy means» and «More on DRM and ebooks» (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html and http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/more-on-drm-and-ebooks.html)