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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Review: My Amazon Kindle Single publishing experiment | ZDNet
It is when you think through the simplicity of the actual PUBLISHING process that you realise just HOW Amazon has disintermediated publishers. Once accepted, it was just a case of writing the book and submitting. The actual file you submit is basically an HTML document that is converted to Amazon’s proprietary format.…
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Continue reading →: The Differential Rates Of Digital Change Problem
I’m not sure if this qualifies as a shameless plug or not, but it is certainly a plug for a piece I’ve written over on EoinPurcell.com: These sales are starting, slowly but surely, to leak sales from small markets to large markets. The levels are unquantifiable right now in anything…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Vestron’s Law: The Propensity for Rights to Revert to the Original Publisher « The Scholarly Kitchen
Excellent post by Joe Esposito over at Scholarly Kitchen today on Vestron’s Law. Oddly enough, it touched on ideas and principles I mention in a blog post over on EoinPurcell.com today. Happy timing because Joe’s post gives a much better theoretical foundation to what I am saying than I could…
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Continue reading →: GO READ THIS | Why Online Retailers Will Squeeze Out Publishers In The Book Business | paidContent
You know, this is a terribly defeatist attitude. I see no reason why smart and driven action by publishers can’t bring about change, though along vertical niches rather than broad trade lines: In short, I don’t think publishers will figure all this out in time, which is why retailers will dominate the…
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