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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Waterstones turns a corner under Russian ownership – Telegraph
A curious take on Waterstones results: The new Waterstones-branded Café W coffee shops, which have been introduced in 17 stores, are another driver of the company’s growth. “Book sales are far stronger in the Waterstones shops that have a coffee concession,” said Mr Daunt. But the company’s partnership with Amazon…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Apple hit with $840 million damages claim for ebooks price fixing | The Verge
This won’t hurt Apple much financially, even if successful, but the legacy of the Agency Pricing move is still damaging Apple and publishers. As I’ve said it was a stupid move that put publishers on the wrong side of consumers which while attractive in the short term was incredibly damaging…
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Continue reading →: My Piece For FAQ | Silicon Dock: Are there any spill-over effects for the Irish publishing scene?
I wrote a piece for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s FAQ magazine this quarter about whether or not there was an impact being felt amongst traditional publishers in Ireland from the presence of large tech companies who have made Dublin and Ireland a base of operations in Europe: The web forms…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | How To Create Value With A New Thing
An interesting piece by Baldur yet again. In lots of ways touching on the dangers of innovation and change to incumbents: Building up in-house digital product development is risky and expensive, especially at the start when you have to build up the necessary expertise and tools to do the job…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Harder, better, faster, stronger | The Bookseller
There is, as ever much to enjoy in reading Rebecca Smart’s analysis over on The Bookseller. One thing that stands out for me though is the ease with which she talks about topics that rarely get flagged up in publishing discussions, things like working capital and cash flow, critical elements…
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