ON A BETTER DEAL FOR AUTHORS

*michael parekh on IT* Ruminations on the Internet, Technology, and Interesting Trends around the globe. HAPPY ENDINGS Forbes takes a crack trying to imagine how the book industry could be changed by the internet, casting Amazon as the potential savior of the humble author. This is an exercise long imagined by many internet and media observers, and the "what ifs" have been going on for almost two

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"The authors/creators/artists in all these industries are waiting for the split to get much better in their favor. And it's been a long wait for all for some online nirvana."

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"The piece doesn't offer any particular reason why this should happen now and why it hasn't happened already given that Amazon has been a big player in book retailing for over a decade now.Neither does it mention new channels of possible distribution via Amazon like it's fledgling Kindle(...)"