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Continue reading →: Go Listen To This | Today – The ‘worrying’ battle for books
Really excellent piece on Today about books, publishing, prices and piracy. Some great voices and opinions there: Despite £3bn being spent on books in the UK last year, a dark digital cloud of uncertainty still hangs over the world of publishing. In the second of his reports into the impact…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Macmillan to sell Indian BPO – The Times of India
I don’t know if this is prompted by the sense that what MPS provides can be bought from other providers as easily as using an in-house outfit, or if the idea is to release an internally impressive unit from the constraints of a traditional parent. Whatever the logic, I’m intrigued…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Angry Robot 12 Month Subscription – angryrobotstore.com
The first thing to say about this is that it’s incredibly cheap. £69 for lots of books is good, by any measures. The second is that it’s incredibly smart. The third that I’d expect this to be the first of many such plans offered by small, medium AND large publishers. The thing…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Amazon to Acquire The Book Depository – Yahoo! Finance
UPDATE: According to a tweet sent this afternoon, the copany will retain operational independence from Amazon. http://twitter.com/#!/bookdepository/status/87876554142658561 Congrats to the Book Depository team. I guess this is a case of, ‘How do you know you are doing something right? Amazon acquires you!’ It’s hard to know what the play is…
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