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	<title>Comments on: Challenging publishers to change isn&#8217;t the safe path</title>
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	<description>Books and reading are getting better</description>
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		<title>By: Ernest Boyden</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ernest Boyden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting view on publishing... It reminds me of a column in PC magazine a couple of years ago when it was still paper based, suggesting that Hollywood failed to understand that computers and the web were in the entertainment business.  Books and how they are read and sourced is changing. An ever expanding amount of public domain books are available from sources such as project Guttenberg as well as a host of other projects and libraries.  These can be downloaded and read on computers, or ebook readers such as Kindles. Titles not in the public domain are also readily available in electronic form.   Returning to your points about publishing, I agree that there needs to be change, and suggest that there will likely be the need to re-invent the publishing industry more than once over the next few years. In some ways this all reminds me of the early PC industry when one could see that it was going to change the way we worked but not how fundamentally it was going to affect us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting view on publishing&#8230; It reminds me of a column in PC magazine a couple of years ago when it was still paper based, suggesting that Hollywood failed to understand that computers and the web were in the entertainment business.  Books and how they are read and sourced is changing. An ever expanding amount of public domain books are available from sources such as project Guttenberg as well as a host of other projects and libraries.  These can be downloaded and read on computers, or ebook readers such as Kindles. Titles not in the public domain are also readily available in electronic form.   Returning to your points about publishing, I agree that there needs to be change, and suggest that there will likely be the need to re-invent the publishing industry more than once over the next few years. In some ways this all reminds me of the early PC industry when one could see that it was going to change the way we worked but not how fundamentally it was going to affect us.</p>
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		<title>By: Mitch Ratcliffe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, that&#039;s what I mean by having learned grammar in the 19th Century. I also read way too much philosophy. Sorry, I hope you find the two readings three times as valuable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, that&#8217;s what I mean by having learned grammar in the 19th Century. I also read way too much philosophy. Sorry, I hope you find the two readings three times as valuable.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Barnes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Barnes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Mitch

1. Thanks. I made changes.

2. An example of your writing: &quot;Competing for attention and building brand reputation for reliable, enjoyable or authoritative writing (though books will be much more than writing in the near future, as Fast Company’s Adam Penenberg pointed out on Wednesday), requires that publishers reject the idea of a finished and closed product that exists between the the covers of a book so that the work can be freed to interact with readers in a networked marketplace.&quot;

A single sentence of 70 words. Whew. Lawyer are you?
&quot;Not very coherent&quot; is not the same as incoherent. You are coherent, but I find that I have to read every sentence twice. Slows me down. Engineers prefer concise sentences. And, we love bullet points.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Mitch</p>
<p>1. Thanks. I made changes.</p>
<p>2. An example of your writing: &#8220;Competing for attention and building brand reputation for reliable, enjoyable or authoritative writing (though books will be much more than writing in the near future, as Fast Company’s Adam Penenberg pointed out on Wednesday), requires that publishers reject the idea of a finished and closed product that exists between the the covers of a book so that the work can be freed to interact with readers in a networked marketplace.&#8221;</p>
<p>A single sentence of 70 words. Whew. Lawyer are you?<br />
&#8220;Not very coherent&#8221; is not the same as incoherent. You are coherent, but I find that I have to read every sentence twice. Slows me down. Engineers prefer concise sentences. And, we love bullet points.</p>
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		<title>By: Mitch Ratcliffe</title>
		<link>http://booksahead.com/?p=946&#038;cpage=1#comment-940</link>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Ratcliffe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry you think so. Happy to take suggestions. What, specifically, isn&#039;t coherent?

I&#039;m a better editor of other people&#039;s work. And I am often accused of writing as though I learned grammar in the 19th Century. 

On your site, by the way, the sentence &quot;But we help our clients develop goals, strategies, tactics and then we manage the resulting action items&quot; is poorly constructed, with a redundant &quot;we&quot; in the final clause. You could also lose the &quot;and&quot; as &quot;then&quot; is sufficient.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry you think so. Happy to take suggestions. What, specifically, isn&#8217;t coherent?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a better editor of other people&#8217;s work. And I am often accused of writing as though I learned grammar in the 19th Century. </p>
<p>On your site, by the way, the sentence &#8220;But we help our clients develop goals, strategies, tactics and then we manage the resulting action items&#8221; is poorly constructed, with a redundant &#8220;we&#8221; in the final clause. You could also lose the &#8220;and&#8221; as &#8220;then&#8221; is sufficient.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Barnes</title>
		<link>http://booksahead.com/?p=946&#038;cpage=1#comment-939</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Barnes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just read this commentary.
You need an editor as it is not very coherent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read this commentary.<br />
You need an editor as it is not very coherent.</p>
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