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Continue reading →: Go Read This | It’s Almost Time To Throw Out Your Books | TechCrunch
Not sure I agree with all of this and certainly sure that his vision for the future is perhaps a little more simple than is likely, but worth reading: With luck we’re entering a world in which readers have access to any and every book for a flat fee; authors…
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Continue reading →: With MatchBook Amazon Pushes The Envelope, Again!
With the jam made, I can finally sit down and write about MatchBook. Amazon has gotten very good at releasing solutions to problems within publishing that many people have been talking about for some time but mostly (see comments below) doing nothing about. You’d have to wonder if the industry…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Acquisition of Hart Publishing
Really clear communication of strategy by public companies is not a given, so when I see it, I take note. Bloomsbury has been following a very clear strategy for some time, acquire bolt on (though not necessarily small) companies that add value in areas the company is seeking to expand.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Small ponds
A very smart piece by Brian O’Leary of Magellan Media Partners, one of the smartest thinkers on content there is: The challenge we face is less about an effort to find the next big thing and more about a series of efforts to accumulate a set of related, smaller things.…
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Continue reading →: What Lagardère’s First Half results Doesn’t Say
To be fair, Lagardère’s first half report does draw attention to its success in digital, in fact, on the publishing side, it says the following: Digital books continued their rise in English-speaking countries, accounting for 34% of Adult Trade sales in the United States (vs. 27% at end-June 2012) and 31% in…
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