![]() ![]() Meantime, self-published authors like Hugh Howey, (click here for the official eBook trailer of his post-apocalyptic thriller “Wool”), are not only selling millions but cutting publishers out of online profits. Major academic and industry institutions are neck deep in public policy debates and dilemmas, while lawsuits and jail sentences abound. People espousing open information are increasingly under fire from governments. In fact, the advent of self-published eBooks has sparked an eerily similar struggle over control and ownership as in centuries past. Digitalization is arguably the most cataclysmic event in the history of the written word since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450. ![]()
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