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Nathan Bransford
Personal blog · blog.nathanbransford.comwritingbusiness
Nathan Bransford's personal blog at blog.nathanbransford.com covers writing and business. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover e-book pricing, the publisher agency model, and the Apple and Amazon price dispute. HN commenters cite them as background for the lawsuit and pricing debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nathan Bransford's blog is a free resource for everything you need to know how to write, edit, and successfully publish a book.
What Hacker News says?
This link makes some sense of it: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/03/why-dojs-potential-l... It isn't the agency model that is the problem, it is how the Apple et al. coerced/enabled the publishers to price-fix and then allowed/enabled the publishers to impose that price fixing on Amazon. I still don't exactly understand why Apple and Google are being sued and not the publishers. [edit] It is Apple and five pub…
Comment linking /2012/03/why-dojs-potential-lawsuit-over-agency.html
on “US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices”Submitted Why some e-books cost more than the hardcover as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are reasons for everything you think Amazon is doing wrong. Mostly they boil down to "having to deal with entrenched old media companies who are married to the physical medium". Amazon's terrible prices on ebooks is due to them not having crazy deals with the publishers like Apple negotiated ith music publishers when they set up iTunes. People selling their books directly, without the infrastructure and tradit…
Comment linking /2011/03/amanda-hocking-and-99-cent-kindle.html
on “Open Letter to Flipkart - Doing eBooks Better Than Amazon”