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As digital publishing accelerates these days, questions around mobile reading and distribution are putting a lot of shimmy into the industry’s progress. Two specialists in the field, Thad McIlroy and Marcello Vena, have some good points to hang onto.

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As some authors report their sales slowing, Marcello Vena in Gothenburg, Sweden, tells The Next Chapter publishing conference that the Long Tail may become the Lost Tail — crushed under a load of books no one has time to read.