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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Format wars
A great piece by Brian O’Leary on the opportunity to grow: Forget about tablets, apps, physical or digital formats: every issue, nearly 8 million people receive a copy of Game Informer. That\’s 2.6 million more subscribers than Reader\’s Digest. That\’s more than twice the number of copies sold by People magazine.…
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Continue reading →: 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 Waterstones deal with Amazon last year. In fact it seems, so far, to have been pretty…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | You know what’s cool? A billion dollars, that’s what’s cool. | FutureBook
If you read nothing else on Oyster and a Netflix for books, make it this by Chris Mceigh. The money quote: So should publishers allow Amazon to go head to head with fledgling players for control of this new supplementary income stream or hold back from signing those licensing contracts…
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Continue reading →: 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. That also doesn’t mean that Amazon Publishing will have an easy ride in the years ahead.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Kindle Singles and the future of ebooks | Joe Wikert
Good piece from Joe Wikert, even if I don’t completely agree with everything he says: End the practice of artificially puffing up content The greatest aspect of Kindle Singles is, of course, their short length. The first one I read was a Single about media and I remember thinking how…
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