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Go Read This | Ugly rumours | theBookseller.com
Sara Lloyd is great and to an extent, she is on the money with this column. The problem is that she’s only right to the degree that we accept the current model is permanent. We still have an eye to...
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GO READ THIS | Gifting Comes To Kindle
Amazon has just announced that you can now give Kindle ebooks as gifts to anyone with an email address. This is kind of amazing and represents a huge shift in the ebook ecosystem. Given that kindle...
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Making Things Happen: The IPN Premium Annual Report On Irish Publishing
This series is designed to talk about some of the things I’ve been lucky/crazy/happy to get shipped (as Seth Godin might put it) in the last few months. The first post talked about The Irish Story’s...
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My 2010 Publishing Heroes
Last year I chose some folks who I though had made 2009 interesting in publishing terms and I believed would do the same in 2010. I think I was broadly right about them. You can see the 2009 list here....
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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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The Differential Rates Of Digital Change Problem | Green Lamp Media
I’m not sure if this qualifies as a shameless plug or not, but it is certainly a plug for a piece I’ve written over on my Green Lamp Media blog: These sales are starting, slowly but surely, to leak...
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Go Read This | Review: My Amazon Kindle Single publishing experiment | ZDNet
It is when you think through the simplicity of the actual PUBLISHING process that you realise just HOW Amazon has disintermediated publishers. Once accepted, it was just a case of writing the book and...
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Go Read This | Why Multichannel Bookselling is the Future | Publishing...
I’ve been struck by how many booksellers are doing well by selling ebook readers. A casual comment hit me over the weekend when someone mentioned that the falling prices of non-branded ereaders was...
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Author, Niche & Power Shifts: What Pottermore MIGHT Point To
Mike Shatzkin has a fine post about the implications of the Pottermore move in terms of publishers and DRM: Without DRM, as Berlucchi explained, anybody can sell ebooks that can be read on a Kindle....
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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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