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Continue reading →: Some Words Can Really Hit Home
Like these words: “We’re now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “After 5 years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for us and growing fast – up approximately 70% last year. In contrast, our physical book sales experienced the lowest December growth…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | With 2 million members, Storybird is ‘reverse-engineering’ the picture book
A very nice, very smart, very exciting idea: Initially, Ury and his cofounder, Kaye Puhlmann (both formerly consumer experience designers for digital ad agencies; Ury has worked with clients like Apple, Nike and Starbucks), imagined that families would be the primary users of the site. “Parents reading on the iPad…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Economic perfect storm: The four trends that killed Western growth | City A.M.
As disturbing as it my seem, we live in a world that has more than just publishing and books in it. hence today’s post. A fascinating analysis of where we are in world economics and how we got here (though not always one with which I wholeheartedly agree) can be…
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Continue reading →: Putting Things In Perspective | E-book sales data, the truth is out there | FutureBook
The Bookseller released publisher sourced data on ebook sales. There’s reason to be somewhat skeptical of the information in the sense that it is seller supplied and while non-one is saying it, there is the minute danger that some padding or exaggeration could creep in. However, the reality is that…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | A New Kind of Publisher: On Merging Creative Industries
A nice post from Zoe Faulder about how publishers are positioned for the “third generation” of ebooks: There is a third generation of ebooks that exists but is far less prolific than the previous two generations – primarily due to cost. Unlike a straight text ebook, or even enhanced ebooks…
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