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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Women help fuel rise in e-book piracy
How do you know you are doing something wrong? When 35-year-old women are a problem for your industry. Seriously, does ANYONE really believe that this age-group are pirating ebooks because they ‘hate’ publishers or dislike copyright? No, they are downloading ebooks from illegal sources because they can’t find legal ones,…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Kindle to Generate $5.42 bln Revenue in 2011 for Amazon: Analyst – International Business Times
How do you like them apples? Very much indeed. Even if this is out by say 20-30% the numbers are impressive! First mover seems to have an advantage in this game. Those headline figures are pretty eyewatering. Nearly $8 billion by 2012? What’s more look at those margins circa 25% by…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Ed Victor sets up publishing imprint
UPDATE: I neglected to include the link to The Bookseller whose original reporting I quote below. The link is now included! As if the signs were not clear enough that the world of trade publishing is changed forever, Ed Victor comes along and proves it pretty definitely. It’s not the…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | Kobo Rides the Shockwave of Interest in E-books: Tech News and Analysis «
Interesting stats on users and the time it has taken to acquire them. “It took us 10 months to get to a million users, and about 90 days to get to 2 million,” CEO Michael Serbinis said in a recent interview. “Getting to 3 million took about 60 days, and…
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