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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Mark Coker: Significant Disruption For Traditional Publishers Still To Come – Forbes
Nice revenue figures there from Mark Coker in Forbes. Even at a low percentage commission charge (and Smashwords charge 10% of retail price for sales through their retail and library distribution network and at their Smashwords store) this would yield quite a chunk of change. Nice work by Mark and…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Magazines and Twitter | Exact Editions | Blog
Great post from Adam Hodgkin about how magazines and twitter are likely to cooperate much more in the years ahead! I was struck by his second paragraph for some reason: After five years of scraping around with Flash, and then two years of figuring out how to do good stuff…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | At play in fields of tablets « PWxyz
Much, much more in this post to read, but the graph that grabbed me was this: Placed in the context of publishing, this makes Google a critically interesting entrant in the tablet wars. Google has not heretofore made a big splash in digital book sales, although it has long been…
