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...
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticlePublishers, 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....
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleSome 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:...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleAmazon & 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...
View ArticleOn 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....
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleGo 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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