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Heather Walrath

Best Buy to Sell Kindle In Stores, Enhance E-Reader Displays - 2 views

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    Best Buy announced on Sept. 9 that it will begin selling Amazon's Kindle in stores. Best Buy will then be the only retailer where consumers can compare, in person, the Nook, Kindle, and Sony readers, plus the iPad.
arnie Grossblatt

Kindle Singles, Genre Between Magazine Articles and Books - 1 views

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    The best reason to buy an e-reader in the first place? That's the claim made here about Amazon Singles.
arnie Grossblatt

Holiday Book Prices Plunge, as Wal-Mart and Amazon Scuffle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “If readers come to believe that the value of a new book is $10, publishing as we know it is over,” said David Gernert, Mr. Grisham’s literary agent. “If you can buy Stephen King’s new novel or John Grisham’s ‘Ford County’ for $10, why would you buy a brilliant first novel for $25? I think we underestimate the effect to which extremely discounted best sellers take the consumer’s attention away from emerging writers.”
  • “You have a choke point where millions of writers are trying to reach millions of readers,” Mr. Petrocelli said, “but if it all has to go through a narrow funnel where there are only four or five buyers deciding what’s going to get published, the business is in trouble.”
arnie Grossblatt

The best report ever on media piracy | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com - 1 views

  • he big forces driving media piracy in developing countries are real and powerful and will not be changed, no matter how many western politicians get on their moral high horses and insist that countries like India and China build a “culture of intellectual property.” But the irony is that if governments and corporations really wanted to build such a culture, then they would encourage companies to set their prices low enough that the populations of those countries could actually afford to buy music, movies, and software at the full legal retail price. It turns out that domestic companies are quite good at distributing media at low prices, and can build profitable businesses by doing that. But foreign companies have different incentives in the short term, and don’t do that.
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    Data-grounded research on the costs of media piracy developing economies.
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