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Go Read This | The Slow But Steady March Toward Paid Content « The Scholarly Kitchen

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December 20, 2012

Interesting piece from Joe Esposito over on The Scholarly Kitchen: The problem that advertising-supported businesses have when the Internet comes along is that online advertising has so many places to go. The inventory is immense. Thus, a publication in print that earns $1 in advertising revenue goes online and finds it can…
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The Rewards & Costs Of Inaction

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November 28, 2012

I’ve often written of the value of inaction in the face of an uncertain future. Today, I want to write about both the rewards and the costs of inaction in a specific case, Ireland and the ebook retail business. Eason, by far the largest bookstore chain in Ireland, is set…
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On Publishing Mergers & Strategy

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November 20, 2012

I have been mulling the Penguin Random House deal for some time now. In fact, I wrote most of this post about ten days ago or longer. I’ll be honest enough to admit that my failure to post my thoughts was as much due to work commitments as it was…
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Go Read This | Publishing in verticals | The Bookseller

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November 7, 2012

Great piece by Rebecca Smart in The Bookseller on niche: The migration to online purchasing of print books, and then to e-books, means that the buying of books is now about processes of search and recommendation, rather than browse and display, and this leads to a focus on specific interest…
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Bloomsbury’s Interesting Results

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October 25, 2012

I don’t know why I find Bloomsbury so fascinating, I just do! Maybe it’s because they published the Harry Potter series, maybe it’s their fantastic cookbooks but I think it more likely, given the nerd that I am, that I find their medium to long-term strategy so interesting, this shift away from…
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