Speakers at last week's UK
Futurebook conference offered ideas for combating Amazon dominance, including
advocating government intervention and ending DRM.
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Here's a thought experiment for
you: what if Amazon was owned by the US government? Would public opinion turn
and leave them as despised as the Post Office?
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More News from PP:
The Iranian Ministry of Culture
and Islamic Guidance may allow publication of a Persian edition of Mahmud
Dowlatabadi’s banned novel, The Colonel.
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From the Archives:
Increasingly anti-technologist
Jonathan Franzen takes an eloquent swing at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in The
Guardian, writing about low prices, phony reviews and too much noise.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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