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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on JK Rowling and Other Big Name Authors Holding Out on E-Book Format]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/04/29/big-name-authors-holding-out-on-e-book-format/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/04/29/big-name-authors-holding-out-on-e-book-format/</guid><description><![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451 not being available on e-bok is pretty damn ironic when you stop to think that one of the book's central themes is that it's not the format but what's written in it that's important.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jbrader]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 29th 2009 3:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on JK Rowling and Other Big Name Authors Holding Out on E-Book Format]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/04/29/big-name-authors-holding-out-on-e-book-format/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/04/29/big-name-authors-holding-out-on-e-book-format/</guid><description><![CDATA[Authors should never make less than 45% royalties.  Period.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 29th 2009 5:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on JK Rowling and Other Big Name Authors Holding Out on E-Book Format]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/04/29/big-name-authors-holding-out-on-e-book-format/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/04/29/big-name-authors-holding-out-on-e-book-format/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is kind of like the DRM/piracy issue, though.  The problem with not releasing these titles *officially* in ebook format simply means that readers do it themselves.  As I understand it, you can find all the Harry Potter books in electronic form now in torrents, so not releasing it in e-book form has lost Rowling and her publishers some sales.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Warner Young]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 29th 2009 6:19PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
