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Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre
interviews author Robert Levine, the author of Free
Ride:
How Digital Parasites are
Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can
Fight Back.
Mark and Robert discuss the following:
- The vision of the orderly process of interviewing subjects for
a non-fiction book VS the actuality
- The hard part being stopping
(research and interviews) when you feel that you have enough
material
- Understanding copyright law when you’re not an attorney
- The stress of publishing deadlines
even with a supportive editor behind you
- What it’s like traveling the globe
for research and delivering the finished product
- The difference between writing for dailies/weeklies/monthlies
and writing a book which relies more on the underlying ideas than
current events & details
- The essence of what publishers do in
terms of aggregating risk
- The concept of making it convenient
to do the right thing and inconvenient to do the wrong thing
- The inconclusive nature of the way different generations
respond to the concept of copyright, digital and free media
- The economics of windowing with respect to format releases in
publishing
- The difference in cost between making Iron Man 2 and the book
Free Ride
- Pricing books and eBooks to maximize revenue
This episode
also includes Q&A regarding the right price to set for your
eBook as well as an overview of one author’s experiment with
increasing the price of her eBook on the various eBook retail
platforms.
Robert
Levine's book Free Ride on Kobo (Please note there
are two different links depending on which territory you're
in):
CA, US, HK,
SG, ID, JP, BR
www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9780385533775
GB, AU, NZ,
DE, FR, ES, NL, IT, HK, SG, AT, CH, ID, JP, PT, ZA, BR
www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9781448161331
Robert
Levine’s Website
http://freeridethebook.wordpress.com/