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Unconvincing, Worth Reading Though | Boston Review — Onnesha Roychoudhuri:...

This reads like an extended complaint letter from publishers to Amazon. I’m unconvinced. There’s nothing here that’s new or original, nothing that suggests anything other than an old order faced with a...

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Go Read This | HarperCollins stands down BookArmy | theBookseller.com

Well, this is a shame. A shame that it didn’t work, a shame that there isn’t any hope of saving it, a shame that a publisher couldn’t build something for itself, a shame that they are using advertising...

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Go Read This | Portraits of an Industry in Flux: Digital publishing and UX |...

Excellent exploration of the challenges of being a book publisher in the modern age: Several months ago, we piloted a program to deliver digital course materials to students enrolled in a select group...

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When Readers Decide

It is becoming hard to avoid the conclusion that a large portion of the reading public has decided they like ereaders and digital books, or at least that they are willing to give them a try. With...

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Publishers, Stop Being Craven, Forge Your Own Future

For some time there has been a funny dichotomy in the publishing industry worldwide. On the one hand publishers have decried the growing influence of powerful tech companies from outside the industry....

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Go Read This | The subtext of REDGroup’s collapse | Josh Dowse | Commentary |...

Fascinating throughout but this passage is striking both because it highlights the remaining defence of publishing and because if it is believed by publishers, it heralds the demise of publishing as we...

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No New Normal – The Value Web

For some reason this has been a very hard post to write. It’s a rather strange situation for me as in essence what I’m writing about is really a very basic idea. Maybe it is because I’m afraid that...

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Go Read This | Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life –...

B&N has, it seems to me, a pretty good sense of what it is doing in the digital space. What’s more, because it is converting heavy readers to digital reading it is gaining pretty credible market...

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I Think Publishers Have Lost The Battle & The War

The thing about the end of Agency is that it’s not over. That is to say that the rearguard action by the legacy publishing establishment isn’t finished. And make no mistake, Agency Pricing and the...

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Go Read This | The Biggest Lie in Publishing | brett sandusky

Great post from Brett Sandusky here. I disagree with some of it, but the main thrust I agree with very much: What I hope will be coming down the pike is not just an acceptance of direct-to-consumer as...

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Some MORE Thoughts On Amazon & Waterstones

The possible pit falls of Waterstones decision to link up with Amazon and sell Kindle devices in-store have cropped up again, most especially in this blog post over on the Telegraph by Mic Wright:...

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Amazon Steals Everyone’s Thunder Again (But Quietly)

Fascinatingly clever (if predictable in many ways) move from Amazon to extend the reach of its Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL) to the UK, Germany and France. By doing so it demonstrates very...

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On Publishing Mergers & Strategy

I have been mulling the Penguin Random House deal for some time now. In fact, I wrote most of this post about ten days ago or longer. I’ll be honest enough to admit that my failure to post my thoughts...

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In Search Of The Number

There is a number I’d like to know, if I knew it, I think it would help me explain some things that currently seem inexplicable to some and unclear to me. I know the number exists because I can phrase...

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Amazon & Goodreads

There’s been a lot said about Amazon’s latest move, the decision to buy Goodreads. While I agree that Amazon has made a very sensible move in acquiring the company, it seems to be a far more strategic...

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On Amazon Publishing

It’s big news that Larry Kirshbaum is leaving Amazon Publishing, it’s just not so big as it appears, especially as the retailing giant is going nowhere, and its Kindle project is as strong as ever....

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Making Frenemies: Kobo, Easons & Ebooks In Ireland

Easons, which once had ambitions to launch its own ereader, has joined forces with Kobo. The deal will see Easons selling Kobo devices in its 60 stores and has attracted little negative comment unlike...

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Go Read This | Smashwords: Farewell Sony Reader Store

More n the end of Sony’s eReading efforts in the US and it’s impact of Smashword, which in the very words of Mark Coker makes clear why this, although notable, is not that huge a deal: Sony’s devices...

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