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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The Technium: The Post-Productive Economy
Great and interesting post from Kevin Kelly about economic growth and where we are at with it The main accomplishment of this 3rd Industrialization, the networking of our brains, other brains and other things, is to add something onto the substrate of productivity. Call it consumptity, or generativity. By whatever…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Why 2012 was the year of the e-single
Much noise and heat generated by short ebooks (the kind of which, TheIrishStory.com has been selling for some time). Laura Hazard Owen’s piece over at PaidContent gets to the heart of it: They don’t cannibalize other formats. It’s nearly impossible to find a magazine that will run a 10,000-word story…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Amazon Is Not A Commerce Company
Fascinating stuff: One common element ties Amazon’s online retail, cloud services and foray into the tablet market: data. For Amazon, the hardware does not matter. The goal is not to make margins on selling fancy consumer hardware and expensive equipment. Through efficiency, Amazon can experiment in retail, publishing and its…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Bookshop numbers halved in seven years, says research | The Bookseller
Interesting to see the long term trend impact of online sales on bookstores: According to a study by Experian for The Telegraph newspaper, there are 1,878 bookshops left on the high street today, including independents and Waterstones stores, whereas in 2005 there were 4,000. Separate research by analysts at Mintel…
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