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Who owns an ebook or digital song? A New York court's emphatic decision today in the ReDigi case makes clear it is not the consumer.
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Tools of Change retweeted
The once and future book: j.mp/Pw2IeX @alexgillespie looks to the past to help understand publishing tomorrow @toc
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POD is really not about printing... It's about availability. #tocffm
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Round up of #digital #pricing session at #tocffm #toccon on blog with @pubperspectives Ed Nawotka chairing ow.ly/ekIn0 by @sashers
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Replying to @alpsp
@alpsp @sashers is on fire today. Check #tocffm for blogposts she’s putting up “on the hoof”. Great work!
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Replying to @toc
@toc We agree with @pilarw and @ASIndexing: indexers create indexes, not indices. More on this at ow.ly/e7i3J
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& Other Stories success brings challenges: booker shortlisting had potential to over stretch resources - Faber co-pub neat solution #tocffm
& Other Stories - blogging community has been integral to success - community of interest really engaged around books #tocffm
& Other Stories own edition sales continued strongly even with co-pub edition on the market #tocffm
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Potash: crowd funding places a value on demand (makes it measurable) #tocffm
Relative cost of books (to films and new tech) low - good for crowd funding (Potash #tocffm)
In the mission driven publishing session #tocffm Jesse Potash talking about crowd funding - publishing well suited to crowd funding
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Libraries are using #linkedopendata with publishers info whether publishers like it or not. Pubs can leverage that or not #tocffm #llod
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I had a great time speaking at #tocffm Please get in touch if you'd like to talk international pricing, VAT, or metadata during #fbf12
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#TOCFFM @cn_oli : APIs let you stand on the shoulders of giants (like Dropbox) to distribute your content.
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API awesomeness about to start in Alabaster on 2nd floor. (It's nice and cool up here!) #TOCFFM
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#tocffm interesting point. We don't know what will happen when we let readers and publishers talk to each other.
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Hyperlinks "the 1st new punctuation mark in centuries" @fakebaldur #tocffm
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#tocffm Zola - zolabooks.com - new ebook retailer aiming to compete by allowing readers to do online what they do offline.
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