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Continue reading →: WordPress.com have created a 2011 stats review for me
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 28,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10…
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Continue reading →: Bait ‘n’ Beer | A blog about books, publishing and their intersection with technology. Among other things.
Don’s right on the money here and it plays nicely into the theme I was getting at with my last link too. Read this and think about these things after Christmas: For example, it’s great to have new discovery tools, but for better or worse, actual book sales (both print and digital)…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Why Amazon Is The Best Strategic Player In Tech – Forbes
Great piece this and one worth reading and pondering for some time. Think how you might respond too: When unexpected things happen, Amazon, unlike most companies, does not immediately respond with knee-jerk PR damage control. As Bezos said during an interview a while back, the company is willing to be…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Bloomsbury Institute enters reader events market | The Bookseller
This does not terribly surprise me, but it is an interesting move and marks a move forward in the pace of Bloomsbury’s determination to diversify its revenue streams away from books, especially trade books: Bloomsbury has set up a literary events arm called Bloomsbury Institute, hosting literary salons, lectures and book clubs,…
