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Continue reading →: Go Read This | An Industry Pining for Bookstores | The Scholarly Kitchen
A fine post about bookstores, print and emerging ecosystems (I’ve written about before about this new emerging value web) by Joe Esposito over on The Scholarly Kitchen: Trade publishers pine for bookstores. Part of this is nostalgia, but part of this is an awareness that their businesses were built for…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | iPod eclipse — Benedict Evans
Lurking in a seemingly not related post about how the iconic Apple product is slowly becoming less important to Apple, is a great few lines about the nature of the music business and, more generally, the content business at a meta level: One could argue that trying to charge a…
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Continue reading →: Go read This | Tough deal – The Bookseller
Lovely piece by Jude Rogers in The Bookseller that illustrates exactly how much the industry has changed over the last decade or so. Really worth considering: Take what happened to us in 2007. Before then, we would hand-deliver 340 copies of every issue of Smoke to Malcolm Hopkins, the wonderful…
