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arnie Grossblatt

Business Class: Freemium for News? - 1 views

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    Interesting ideas on a "first class" experience for online news readers.
arnie Grossblatt

The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales - 1 views

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    Some data on the lift of sales from the provision of free copies.
arnie Grossblatt

Post-Medium Publishing - 0 views

  • iTunes is more of a tollbooth
    • arnie Grossblatt
       
      This is saving the argument by changing the terms mid-stream.
  • much the same with digital books
    • arnie Grossblatt
       
      How the same? Claiming it doesn't make it so. And books cost more than 99 cents; ten dollars is not, in Graham's terms, an ignorable event.
  • But though I can't predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that's merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably looking at a loser.
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  • In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?
  • If audiences were willing to pay more for better content, why wasn't anyone already selling it to them?
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