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Continue reading →: Go read This | Macmillan Acquires Cookstr, with Schwalbe In Expanded Role
Cookstr is smart, acquiring Cookstr is smart. All told, this is a really interesting development: Macmillan has acquired cookbook and recipe Web site Cookstr. Founded in 2008 by Katie Workman and Will Schwalbe, Cookstr has reached as many as eight million unique visitors a month via its own consumer-facing recipe…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Bookish Acquired by Zola
Interesting piece of news this: Michael Pietsch, CEO of Hachette, said the founding publishers “never intended to run Bookish forever,” and that their objective of starting a first-class recommendation engine has been achieved in the current Bookish version. Despite the problems, and costs, of getting Bookish off the ground, Pietsch…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Publishers do need to sell direct, but here are five things they should at least be started on first – The Shatzkin Files
In many ways this issue highlights both the complex decision-making processes that lie behind things that are highlighted as faults among large publishers (and in so doing offers if not a defence, then at least an explanation for seemingly bizarre decisions) and the core problems of these publishers (that they are at…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | 2014 Publishing Predictions
Jane Little’s 2014 predictions list is wide-ranging and fascinating throughout. One point that I believe warrants mention is below and relates to online communities. One curious feature of the list is that Amazon seems to have got there already with a few points. Perhaps there is a danger of us…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The money in Angry Birds is no longer in “Angry Birds” – Quartz
This is fascinating stuff. It’s all about getting the right model (and of course having monster success in terms of usage and recognition). As film companies have learnt over the decades, sometimes the initial product is just the doorway to the licensing revenues (see <a href=”http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-cars-has-crossed-8-99438“>Disney’s Cars franchise</a>): Rovio seems…
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