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Continue reading →: The Opportunity Apple Just Created For Publishers
Apple did book big book publishers a favour some time ago when, by giving the big six leverage over Amazon (with the launch of their new ebook platform iBooks), they enabled those large publishers to enforce Agency pricing for ebooks. That gave the big six the power to set prices…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Will print and ebook publishers ultimately be doing the same books? – The Shatzkin Files
Mike Shatzkin looks at the current realities of ebooks and print books and what is happening. I think we are only a few months shy of encountering the kind of events I describe here, at least in the US: In fact, the current improvement in the profit picture suggests that…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Agents have to do it, but their new service offerings change the publishing ecosystem – The Shatzkin Files
Interesting note from Mike Shatzkin this: Many of the agents, but not Waxman with Diversion, are specifying that their services are only for existing agency clients. That’s a good way of putting a toe in the water and it’s a good way to minimize the concern of publishers. But it’s…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Push Pop Press Acquired By Facebook
I’m not certain what this means, but it is damn interesting that’s for sure. “this is one of the most elegant, fluid, impressive apps you’ve ever seen. It’s a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets.” Now we’re taking our publishing technology and everything we’ve learned and are setting…
