The Book Revolution (ebook)

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The book industry is changing extremely fast. Publishers, distributors and authors are now trying to catch up with the trends, studying them, understanding them, and making as much profit as possible. However, the vast majority, despite their efforts, despite the opportunities being provided, is still very far from achieving ideal goals.

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Title	The Book Revolution (ebook)
Author	Samuel River
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Most writers still can’t make a living from books, not even a few dollars, and making a book free isn’t anymore a guarantee of an efficient marketing campaign.

On the other hand, despite what is told about ebooks being a great and increasing profitable business, many new companies bankrupt as fast as they appear in the market, and many others still can’t profit enough from ebooks. In other words, nothing is what it seems or is being told, and many famous writers are not making a living from their books, or at least not for too long. [...]

The Real Value of Books
The Real Value of Knowledge
How Could Publishers Becomes Wealthy
Possibilities & Limitations in the Book Industry
Serious Risks for Authors
The End of Bookshops
The Future of Digital Publishing
How Publishers Can Capture Trends
Awesome Profitable Ideas for Distributors
Why Businesses Fail
Why Google is More Efficient than Amazon

The Real Value of Books
The price of ebooks has been decreasing, and many companies, such as Amazon, are actually pushing it into as low as they can get, and they do it basically to increase sales, as they’re investing on the amount of sales rather than amount per purchase. It’s how they reach more costumers and countries, and maintain a loyal list of buyers. Everything else tends to be secondary to this approach. Even though Amazon is basically a company created to satisfy consumer’s needs, which means allowing anyone to trash an author in his own public selling page, it’s also interesting to notice the idea among most readers that believe books should be free, just like music or anything else that they don’t seem to value. This perspective of free market is allowing companies like Amazon to commit a crime that was once punished in the music industry for those that downloaded music for free, and yet, that very few dare to contradict and punish in court. [...]

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One of the greatest single moves that could be made to advance and vitalize a culture such as America would be to free, completely, the artist from all taxes and similar oppressions, and thus attract into the arts the most ambitious and able and invite them to pursue unchecked the creation of all the beauty and glory on which any culture depends if it would have material wealth.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— L. Ron Hubbard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e2. “A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists. When the level of existence of the artist becomes impure, so becomes impure the art itself, to the deterioration of the society. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably a rebel against the status quo. The artist, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— L. Ron Hubbard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e3. “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Albert Einstein\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e4. “A person giving you advice isn't perfect and has his own shortcomings, but may just give you the piece that you're missing.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Dr. Ali Al Omari\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e5. “A person who has difficulty in buying the labor that he wants, suffers inconvenience or the reduction of profits. 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Because they consider themselves above disproving, they must attack someone who disproves them. They sacrifice others in order to preserve their self-image of perfection.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— M. Scott Peck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e8. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Sir Francis Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e9. “A society which in any way inhibits, suppresses or regiments its artists is a society certainly doomed. And democracy, avidly taxing its powerfully creative individuals into non-production, snatches from the artist any fruits of victory and exacts an enormous penalty for the creation of any work of art. Some artists, regrettably, seek to act in their private and public lives in an intensively aberrated fashion in order to prove that they are artists. The education of this effect is such that we can commonly discover some young girl, in the field of arts, living like a prostitute in order to convince herself and her friends that she is truly artistic. Being artistic was commonly identified with being loose-moraled, wicked, idle and drunken. And the artist, to be recognized, tried to live up to this role. This feeling persists to this day and certain people often embrace the arts solely as an excuse to be promiscuous, unconventional and loose in morals. Any field which has critics galore, wherein a thousand different schools of divergent opinion can exist, where opinion is listened to with open mouths in lieu of reason by which any many can reach a conclusion, is an authoritarian field. Aesthetics, unfortunately, abounds in these critics and opinions. But a culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. When the level of existence of the artist becomes impure, so becomes impure the art itself to the deterioration of the society. For if the industry and commerce and material projects of a nation are carried on the backs of a few able, desperate men, then the honor an the glory of that society is carried and enhanced by the artist.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e— L. 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