According to the AP, the ebook monopolists with their proprietary software are already feeling the pressure. J.K. Rowling’s new Web store Pottermore is offering paid ebook downloads without encryption so that they can be used on every device. This means that the distributors lose some relative market power to the authors and publishers. It is a fascinating sport to see how technology and the open-source spirit is prevailing in this young sector of business.
Laissez Faire Books will be offering all of its publications in this format, along with new services that will blaze new paths in publishing. You can look for this in the coming weeks. We are absolutely determined to completely modernize publishing for liberty-minded authors, helping them reach completely new audiences and in new ways.
Jeffrey Tucker
Jeffrey Tucker is the publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, the Primus inter pares of the Laissez Faire Club, and the author of Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo, It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, and A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Build Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age, among thousands of articles. Click to sign up for his free daily letter. Email him: tucker@lfb.org | Facebook | Twitter | Google
