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	<title>Diary of a Mad Editor &#187; Books</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on publishing and the writing life</description>
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		<title>Reading With Cheap Eyeglasses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was blog post by new media phobic&#160; writer, Nicolas Carr, a guy who though he himself uses new media as a platform for his writing is nonetheless critical of everything digital. His latest target is e-books. 
More specifically, he ponders whether being able to edit on-the-fly is a good things since a book is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nook on the Hook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-readers are perhaps most innovative creation since log furniture and, while e-readers are helping Amazon expand its publishing business, Barnes &#38; Noble is getting out of direct publishing. That’s right, pretty soon, B&#38;N will not be publishing anymore Barnes and Noble Classics or anything else. It seems the the big book retailers is planning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Did a Bad, Bad Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I said that even though I was firmly against the “agency model” for pricing e-books, I did not believe that Apple colluded with publishers. Well… as the lawsuit against Apple and the mainstream publishers moves forward, information has come to light to make me rethink my initial conclusion. If we roll up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Apple Agency Model is Good for Pirates and Self-Publishers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainstream publishers still don’t get it: book buyers do not want to pay more than $10 for an e-book.&#160; They are deluding themselves if they believe jacking-up ebook prices is a good idea. Higher ebook prices do not translate into more ebooks sales. And higher ebook prices are not exactly helping hardcover sales.
So who does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border&#8217;s Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barnes and Noble’s greatest fear is now Border’s reality as the last of its megastores prepare to close forever. In its heyday, Border’s was a living example of Social Darwinism as it killed off mom and pop indie book stores one by one.
 But then, it became the endangered species as online e-tailers overtook the [...]]]></description>
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