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Continue reading →: Go Read This | KOBO™ BREAKS EBOOK RECORDS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON — Kobo
I’m always amused by press releases that include either selective or somewhat confusing stats. Kobo’s press release if full of those. However I’m intrigued by them. Try and see if you can get anything meaningful from it. Nice to see Emma Donoghue in the top gifted though! Kobo became the…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Joe’s Picks for 2010: Reckless Enthusiasm and the Platform Wars « The Scholarly Kitchen
Look for platform wars to lead to the shutting down of more bricks-and-mortar bookstores; for the amount of shelf space in bricks-and-mortar stores given over to used books and nonbook items to grow; for some technical platforms to exit the business (no, I won’t say which ones); for a surge…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | 5 E-Book Trends That Will Change the Future of Publishing
So many things wrong here. I’ll deal with them one by one. 1) Enhanced EBooks Imagine video that shows how to fix a leaky faucet or solve complex math problems in statistics; audio that pronounces foreign language words as you read them, and assessment that lets you check what you…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | First Google Books Sales #s In | Munsey’s Technosnarl
I’m sure we’ll start to see much more details on sales and revenues over the next few weeks but this is very interesting, at least to me! With its actual-sales-generating bookstore, Google is now in the position where they don’t have to rely on links to Amazon (or Abebooks, or…
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