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Feb.06.2010
Well, it looks like as of yesterday, Amazon has restored the "buy" buttons for books published by Macmillan. During the past week, Macmillan has been negotiating terms with Amazon. Apparently they have reached an agreement. We don't know the details. Two days ago, Macmillan CEO John...
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Feb.04.2010
(Posted from The Publeconomist, published 2/4/10)
"Available at booksellers everywhere except Amazon." This was the controversial addition to a Thursday New York Times ad that Macmillan took out on behalf of author Atul Gawande's "The Checklist Manifesto." If you've been...
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Feb.02.2010
(Posted from The Publeconomist, published 1/23/10)
Technology can lead to scary things! An interesting article was posted yesterday in the New York Times. Author Motoko Rich wrote about how many new and emerging authors are experiencing an enormous boost in sales without making a penny. How...
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Jan.31.2010
This just received from Publishers Lunch: Amazon Answers: "Ultimately....We Will Have to Capitulate" Could publishers have triumphed so quickly with their strategy to use Apple's entry into the market to move to an agency model for selling ebooks? (Note that the etailer says "...
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Jan.31.2010
I woke up this morning to the astonishing news that Amazon.com has stopped selling all titles from Macmillan , the sixth largest publisher in America. I learned about this first on Frances Dinkenspiel's blog, Ghost Word. Frances is a Macmillan author.
According to an article in The New York...
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Jan.16.2010
I have been reading more and more on the blogs here about the intrusion of e-books.This is very disturbing to me,having been a holder of books in my two hands since I was six. I did download a 200 pager on Buddhism the other day,but have yet to read it.
First of all,I can sit that long in an...
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Jan.11.2010
I used to do a lot of public speaking, and in some pretty big venues, too. I also seemed to be on a lot of media people's rolodexes (yes, that is what they had back then). When they needed a quote about the virtue of local business or "bricks and mortar" stores, they could always get a...
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Jan.07.2010
Ever since I walked away from traditional journalism in 1960 to produce the periodical which touched off the so-called "Alternative Press" movement, The Californian, my major purpose in writing has been truthseeking. Eventually it resulted in my being blacklisted from periodicals that...
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Jan.02.2010
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but we might as well face up. One of these days, not too far off, bookstores will be a thing of the past. Books are going digital just like music has gone digital. Right now e-book purchases constitute less than 2% of all book sales. But while sales of...
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Dec.17.2009
@ eBook Summit: Advertising Is Coming To E-Books
There were a few things that attendees and speakers appeared to have decided on by the end of the two-day MediaBistro eBook Summit: case in point, the $9.99 standard price for a digitized title—as established by the space’s leader, Amazon (NSDQ:...
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