Transitioning ebook discussions to new blog

Please watch this space for a new blog which will be devoted solely to eBooks and digital publishing issues.  READ TO SURVIVE will remain my book review blog, and I will be trying to introduce indexing for the books discussed in archive posts.

Amanda

AMeckeCo website

Michael Pertschuk, a writer for optimistic liberals

A coalition builder's lesson for progressives
By Katrina vanden Heuvel;

Read today’s Washington Post recommending

Michael Pertschuk’s new book:

THE DeMARCO FACTOR:
TRANSFORMING PUBLIC WILL INTO POLITICAL POWER
 (Vanderbilt University Press, paperback)

Mike has been a friend since I worked with him on REVOLT AGAINST REGULATION, which he wrote while standing firm as Liberal on Regan’s FTC.

He has been a life-long anti-smoking advocate, someone dedicated more to improving public health and saving lives rather than scoring ideological points, but he has no illusions about the obstacles to common sense changes that progressives continue to face.

You cannot learn from a better consumer advocate who walks the walk as well as talking the talk, and one of his heroes is Maryland’s Vincent DeMarco.

The best book news in Ages

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/business/30books.html?th&emc=th

In the NYT today a great story about how Google eBooks will help independent bookstores compete with the Chains:

Now one element of Google Editions is coming into sharper focus. Google is on the verge of completing a deal with the American Booksellers Association, the trade group for independent bookstores, to make Google Editions the primary source of e-books on the Web sites of hundreds of independent booksellers around the country, according to representatives of Google and the association.

The partnership could help beloved bookstores like Powell’s Books in Portland, Ore.; Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, Calif.; and St. Mark’s Bookshop in New York. To court the growing audience of people who prefer reading on screens rather than paper, these small stores have until now been forced to compete against the likes of Amazon, Apple and Sony.