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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Finding your next book, or, the discovery problem – The Shatzkin Files
A fine piece by Mike, as ever, with a critical section at the end about the direction of online books sales which I think is often overlooked: But is this all really part of a larger problem for publishers? Is online discovery really affecting the sales patterns for books? It…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Never say Never |David Worlock
A good piece from David this: It was no place to pursue the argument, and if time had been available I might have learnt all sorts of clever things that Penguin Random House have up their sleeves to stave off change and preserve the status quo. The novel form as…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX: power, with a helping hand | The Verge
You have to hand it to Amazon, its is just going at this market hard and not letting up and by the looks of things, it is learning as it goes: Whether you’re in the market for an 8.9-inch or 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire HDX is a hard device…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Don’t blame Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter for the fact that technology changes behavior – The Shatzkin Files
It’s kind of remarkable that this still has to be repeated so often, but it does, it really does: I spoke this past week with the communications director at a think tank who has their publishing arm reporting to him. He’s new to the world of books. He reports that…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Tesco tablet expected on 23 September
It has been clear for some time that probably only full-scale retailers have the capacity to respond to Amazon, Google, Apple and other digital giants. They have the advantages of scale, access to capital, direct customer interaction and customer inertia working in their favour. Of course, those advantages are threatened…
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