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Natalie Barnes

Updates to Amazon's Book Ranking Algorithms: The Death of 99-Cent Ebooks? An End to KDP... - 0 views

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    Another factor in the pricing of ebooks--Amazon's ranking algorithms, which may result in price increases to indie books so that they will be noticed. Indie author Edward W. Robertson is a stats junkie who's been studying the e-seller's algorithms for a while.
arnie Grossblatt

The Cost of Knowledge - 0 views

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    Elsevier journal pricing backlash leads to a boycott.
Kori Kamradt

Free-For-All: Anderson, "Free" Book, Sparks a Backlash Online and Among Battered Media ... - 0 views

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    Under normal circumstances, the fact that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, logged over 17,000 free views in a day on upstart "social publisher" Scribd would be the story. The real story, however, lurks in the comments left on the Scribd web site.
arnie Grossblatt

The Real Cost of College Textbooks - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.
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    This is not likely to have any real effect. Textbooks are sold to a captive market. Those who are paying their tuition without benefit of student loans will buy the books without thinking too much about the cost. Those who are going to school on student loans will go into debt.
arnie Grossblatt

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 0 views

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    This article is over a year old, and soon to be updated by Chris Anderson's book of the same title, but it's still well worth the read.
Jo Arnone

Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    As Amazon does everything possible to compete with brick and mortar stores, and drive small book sellers out of business, how much control will they have over the industry? One of the upsides of electronic publishing is that information will not be controlled by corporate America in electronic form.
Allison Begezda

Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million - 0 views

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    A heavily corrected unfinished draft of an early Jane Austen manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's in London on Thursday for almost 1 million pounds ($1.6 million), three times the estimated presale price, The Associated Press reported. The draft of "The Watsons" went to an unidentified buyer; Sotheby's said it is the only major manuscript by Austen still in private hands.
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