A Newfangled Online Bookstore - 0 views
Steve Jobs Biography and Other Hot Titles Bookstore Lures - NYTimes.com - 1 views
Three Indies Rise from Atlantic Books Ashes - 0 views
The Bittersweet Art of Cutting Up Books - 0 views
Borders Invests in Kobo, an E-Book Store - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Getting Google to notice your ebook - 0 views
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but Google eBookstore suddenly gives booksellers a reason to at least wade into SEO.
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But what about new books and ebooks? How does Google determine which new titles, and the more than 15 million books that have been scanned, float to the top of its search results pages: in the web search box and in the ebookstore. The challenge, for Gray and other Google engineers on the Books project, is that the best known component of Google's algorithm for determining the the value of a web resource -- the number of links to it by others -- does not apply to books and ebooks. Although it is possible to link to a selection in certain books on Google Books (here's a hyperlink into the aforementioned Galbraith title) people don't generally create links to the contents of a book or ebook. So linking is not a reliable indicator of quality.
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One strategy that Google employs is to tap into the book industry's "rich tradition of metadata.
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A Bookstore Dedicated to Cookbooks: Book Larder - 1 views
Borders UK stops taking customer orders | theBookseller.com - 0 views
Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well - 1 views
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The publishing industry isn't a monolithic thing: some publishers are doing well and others are not. ... I don't see an industry that's flailing—I see one that's managing a complicated transition much better than would be expected."
Amazon's Jungle Logic - NYTimes.com - 1 views
Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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