“As time goes on, we’ll find our way with this, but we need to have the thing — we need to have the consumer using the thing — to tell us what’s best. So we start with who we are.”
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The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes - 0 views
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hree centuries ago, John Locke agreed that we shouldn't base our freedom to read books on the proclaimed good offices of the business itself. "Books seem to me to be pestilent things," he wrote in 1704, "and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society, and that general fairness that cements mankind."
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Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
Business Class: Freemium for News? - 1 views
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Interesting ideas on a "first class" experience for online news readers.
E-Reader Sales Expected to Be Big This Holiday - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Interesting article. I don't really agree with this statement: Maybe too much, said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information. "I don't think that the U.S. market can support 50 or 60 e-readers," he said, adding that he had lost count of all the current models. The market can support it; it gives people more options, but it'll just turn into a matter of what device addresses/achieves all of the needs of the consumer. Like the model Arnie went over in class, it's like a bell curve of technological advances that we want/would like, slowly get, but that eventually ends up swamping us. We start out wanting a and b, then c, d, and e are added, which we like. By the time it hits m, n, o, and p, we're overwhelmed.
A Push to Redefine Knowledge at Wikipedia - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Critics of Wikipedia are pushing it to expand beyond the traditional Western model of scholarship and authority: the written word
Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: Thoughts on eContent, Free Content and Pricing Model... - 0 views
Google's Chief Asks Newspapers to Test Models - WSJ.com - 0 views
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Google's Eric Schmidt called on newspaper executives to create a "new format" for online journalism, including more personalized content.
Target, Upset With Amazon, Will Stop Selling Kindles - 4 views
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Target fights back against Amazon "showrooming".
Small Stores See Google as Ally in E-Book Market - 0 views
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Google closer to entering the book market as distributore and retailer.
Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
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A thoughtful discussion on the root of big ideas and innovation. I found this talk particularly apt to the publishing business and the business model innovations we're currently discussing. "Chance favors the connected mind."
The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views
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It is now clear that it is as disruptive to today's newspapers as Gutenberg's invention of movable type was to the town criers, the journalists of the 15th century.
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The Internet wrecks the old newspaper business model in two ways. It moves information with zero variable cost, which means it has no barriers to growth, unlike a newspaper, which has to pay for paper, ink and transportation in direct proportion to the number of copies produced.
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And the Internet's entry costs are low.
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Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.
Stephen R. Covey Grants E-Book Rights to Amazon - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Amazon, maker of the popular Kindle e-reader and one of the biggest book retailers in the country, will have the exclusive rights to sell electronic editions of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” and a later work, “Principle-Centered Leadership.” Mr. Covey also plans to gradually make other e-books available exclusively to Amazon, which will promote them on its Web site.
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The move promises to raise the already high anxiety level among publishers about the economics of digital publishing and could offer authors a way to earn more profits from their works than they do under the traditional system.
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Many authors and agents say that because the contracts for older books do not explicitly spell out electronic rights, they reside with the author. Big publishing houses argue that clauses like “in book form” or phrases that prohibit “competitive editions” preclude authors from publishing e-books through other parties.
Apple Adds 2 Publishers to Its Store for E-Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Apple iPad and Kindle competition heats up.
New Yorker on iPad Shows Viewers Want to Read - 0 views
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It's all about the content. Serious readers want the steak, not the sizzle.
Shakespeare to Pickup the Slack from Harry Potter - 0 views
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Publisher Bloomsbury purchases the Arden Shakespeare series as a growth driver, now that Harry Potter series sales drop. The Bard Rules!
Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book - 0 views
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The fabulous online comic xkcd is coming out in a print format book. Tag line could be "Publishers? We don't need no stinking publishiers!"
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