Cory Doctorow on Amazon, Macmillan, and eBook Pricing
The outspoken sci-fi author and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow talked to Chris Kennedy for the Copyright Clearance Center’s Beyond The Book online radio show last week about eBook pricing, the recent standoff between Macmillan (his own publisher) and Amazon, and a number of other issues that affect eBooks.
Here’s an excerpt from the show in which Doctorow sounds off on the trouble with Kindle and what he would have if he were in charge of Macmillan: “The contracts that you click through when you buy a Kindle book and the DRM that’s on most Kindle books make it technically and legally difficulty, if not impossible, to move your Kindle library to a competing device, which means that the more Kindle books you buy as an individual reader, the more you’re going to have to give up if you decide to throw away your kindle and buy someone else’s device because...
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