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Upcoming WLP author and Los Angeles treasure, Mike Sonksen (Mike the Poet), has been writing a twice-a-month column on KCET’s website.
His most recent post is this rundown of a few (of the many) great places to find and enjoy poetry in and around Los Angeles.
We haven’t put out an ebook version of any of our titles…yet. But we will be starting this year, with Abductions.
Our plan is to go with a epub and PDF route, so people can load it up on any reader (including their computers) to read the books. No DRM. Direct sales.
From the linked piece by Charlie Stross:
DRM on ebooks is dead. (Or if not dead, it’s on death row awaiting a date with the executioner.)
It doesn’t matter whether Macmillan wins the price-fixing lawsuit bought by the Department of Justice. The point is, the big six publishers’ Plan B for fighting the emerging Amazon monopsony has failed (insofar as it has been painted as a price-fixing ring, whether or not it was one in fact). This means that they need a Plan C. And the only viable Plan C, for breaking Amazon’s death-grip on the consumers, is to break DRM.
If the major publishers switch to selling ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety of outlets and move away from the walled garden of the Kindle store. They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to “disrupt” them, and whose chief executive said recently “even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation” (where “innovation” is code-speak for “opportunities for me to turn a profit”).
And so they will deep-six their existing commitment to DRM and use the terms of the DoJ-imposed settlement to wiggle out of the most-favoured-nation terms imposed by Amazon, in order to sell their wares as widely as possible.
If they don’t, they’re doomed.
However, we are going to experiment with the iBooks Author tool to see what it’s like to do a multimedia, pseudo-interactive ebook. That would mean DRM and Apple restrictions, but we want to experiment with that.
Join us for the official launch of ABDUCTIONS, the new poetry collection from Chiwan Choi. His most personal work…told through an alien abductions mythology.
And the beautiful music of Holland Greco.
At the one and only The Last Bookstore in downtown LA.
ABDUCTIONS - LAUNCH - SATURDAY 4/14/12 - 8PM
at The Last Bookstore - Downtown Los Angeles
reading and signing from my new poetry collection.
Music by Holland Greco
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Chiwan Choi kicking off his ABDUCTIONS book tour in New York, March 2012. This is from Mike Geffner presents The Inspired Word at the 116 in the West Village.
