The national news outlets have been doing a fair enough job covering the worst of the publishing industry’s most recent news, but in the hullabaloo, so little attention has been paid to the issues that could make or break the future of publishing, especially in relationship to electronic publishing. How exactly are authors being paid for their ebooks? What electronic file type is the best investment for publishers of ebooks? Why doesn’t Fair Use just cover everything? And what in the world is the public domain?
The next few pages are short summaries of the ways publishers are currently using (and may be attempting to anticipate) technology.
