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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the future of publishing – The Shatzkin Files Pt. II
I’ve already linked to this, but it warrants a second link. If you want to understand the basic problems facing book publishers in 2014, then read this post. In it, replace the large publishers and niche players that Mike refers to with small general players and consider how the trends…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the future of publishing – The Shatzkin Files
Mike is smart, very smart this paragraph nails the problems of booksellers and publishers too: One distracting fact for analysts considering this question has been the apparent slowdown in the growth of ebook sales, suggesting that there are persistent print readers who just won’t make the switch. The encouraging fact…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Mainframe Bookselling and Internet Commerce
Bookshops and their fate have been coming under increased scrutiny in the last few month. Whether they can be saved or not in an interesting question. My sense is that many of the chains will no longer be sustainable within the next three to five years in countries with high…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Sit Back, Relax, and Read That Long Story—on Your Phone – Megan Garber – The Atlantic
I’ve been doing most of my reading (books, magazines and websites) on my mobile for some time now (since I first got hooked on Kindle on an iPod Touch). I’ve felt that mobile is too easily dismissed as a platform for reading books for some time and this timely piece…
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