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Continue reading →: Easons Will NOT Be Building A Platform For Ebooks Anytime Soon
Waterstones decided to team up with Amazon and one of most compelling reasons for that was the sheer cost of developing an ereader and a fully fledged ebook platform (just look at B&N’s capital expenditure and increased costs and their need for cash to support their successful Nook business, hence…
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Continue reading →: Further Thoughts On Waterstones And Amazon
Yesterday I wrote a post that was generally favourable to the deal between Amazon and Waterstones: If I was to think of one single reason for the move being a good though I would say it is this, it allows Waterstones to stand still and observe for a little longer.…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts On >> Waterstones & Amazon
I have to say, this notion didn’t once enter my mind when I thought about Waterstones options, not because it’s a bad idea (far from it) but because I never thought Waterstones and its management would even consider it. It’s fairly radical and the implications are pretty dramatic: UK bookseller Waterstones is to sell…
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Continue reading →: Go read This | Whats the right price for ebooks? updated : CJR
Interesting piece on price I found via: Book2Book earlier today The marginal-cost-is-all argument also fails to take into account copyright law, which essentially grants each new work a sort of miniature monopoly. If I write a book about something, you can’t republish it unless I give the okay, or unless…
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Continue reading →: Go read This | Binaries Aren’t Going to Work « Wordisms
It’s a day of good posts on publishing and books and how they are going to work: I often get annoyed at people ruing that the Internet has destroyed book culture, because this tends to clump blogs, online magazine and journals, and independent or DIY presses alongside content farms, auto-aggregated…
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