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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The publishing industry’s new product categories | Studio Tendra
Another decent piece this from Baldur: Finally, once you have a set of ideas and aspirational projects, you need to whittle them down, or at least prioritise them. That means you need to look at the cost-revenue balance for each one. And to do that you need to figure out…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Random, loosely connected, thoughts on the future | Studio Tendra
A pretty negative (though not entirely inaccurate) take on the future of publishing: There’s a good chance that, as now, the future publishing industry will have a sharp divide between writers who make a living from writing or illustrating and the rest who earn very little, but with one big…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | New Startups Focus on Tracking eBook Reading Data
Interesting stuff this: Analysing reading data is playing a crucial role in the evolutionary growth in Amazon and Barnes and Noble. For years, those two companies have been guarding their data and not relaying it to their publishing friends. This data is exploited to promote books that are fashionable in…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Moonshot
Really great piece this from Horace Dediu at Asymco: Incidentally, timing is the other element that is key to success. It might seem that timing really is a matter of luck. But timing can be informed by the same conversation with the customer. As you observe adoption you can also measure…
