March 2012
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Really Canada? No more pennies? We just finished up pricing to 0.99.
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“The most important thing is sitting and talking with your children,” said...”
– Bringing Up a Young Reader on E-Books - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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20% Of Global Readers Bought eBook In Past 6... →
E-Books Drive Revenue Growth Across Book Trade in... →
h0ld3n:
January 2012 was a banner month for the book trade with e-book revenue growth leading the way.
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“There is a lesson in here somewhere. Perhaps it’s that eBooks made reading cool...”
– K.D. Rush - A Hunger for Books is No Game (via calimae)
APPLE vs ANDROID + Gadgets : Live Updates: Harry... →
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How is it the old saying goes — the best things come to those who wait? The wait for the Harry Potter eBook series to go on sale has certainly been long. Originally we were expecting them back in October. But, for whatever reason that date slipped, and slipped, and now…
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Ursula K. Le Guin On The Death (or not) of the... →
There certainly is something sick about the book industry, but it seems closely related to the sickness affecting every industry that, under pressure from a corporate owner, dumps product standards and long-range planning in favor of ‘predictable’ sales and short-term profits.
As for books themselves, the changes in book technology are cataclysmic. Yet it seems to me that rather than dying,...
Agnostic, Maybe: Schrodinger's eBook →
“Is an eBook a book?”
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Seriously, this should be the only question being discussed at this time because it is the most fundamentally important one. How can the other questions as posed by the presentations mentioned above be answered if we (the book expert people of all stripes) cannot come to a united conclusion as to whether an eBook is actually a book or a computer file or something...
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WSJ: Work Wear: Office Style at Simon & Schuster →
Somehow this doesn’t seem to help the Big 6 PR wise. Makes the solution to their concerns about the retail and margin of digital books and how it is impacting trade publishing seem to be as simple as a Target gift card and a coupon for Payless Shoes.
(Apparently Club Monaco is the place you have to shop if you are in publishing…)
luckypaperstars:
Over at this unnamed publishing...
