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arnie Grossblatt

Four years into the ebook revolution: things we know and things we don't know - The Sha... - 2 views

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 25 Sep 11
     
    Reflections on the e-book years after the introduction of the Kindle.
arnie Grossblatt

Revolution in Resale of Digital Books and Music - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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e-books fair use

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  • arnie Grossblatt on 08 Mar 13
     
    Amazon and Apple are looking to create markets for the sale of "used" e-books.
Derik Dupont

Borders Invests in Kobo, an E-Book Store - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Derik Dupont on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 16 Dec 09
     
    Borders joins the e-book revolution with a new e-reader and e-book site created with a Canadian partner. The bookstore chain is entering a market crowded with other e-reading devices.
arnie Grossblatt

Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' Joins E-Book Revolution - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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e-books tablet

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 05 Oct 11
     
    A classic cookbook becomes an e-book after working though a number of technical problems.
Allison Begezda

E-Book Revolution Upends a Publishing Course - 2 views

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shared by Allison Begezda on 18 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Allison Begezda on 18 Jul 11
     
    FOR decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book business, a white-glove six-week course in which ambitious college graduates were educated in the time-honored basics of book editing, sales, cover design and publicity. Not this summer.
arnie Grossblatt

The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 28 Oct 08 - Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • And the Internet's entry costs are low.
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • These cost advantages make it feasible to make a business out of highly specialized information, a trend that was under way well before the Internet.
  • specialized media had been enjoying more growth than general media.
  • A metropolitan newspaper became a mosaic of narrowly targeted content items. Few read the entire paper, but many read the parts that appealed to their specialized interests
  • Sending everything to everybody was a response to the Industrial Revolution, which rewarded economies of scale
  • Newspapers "keep offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of content, and keep diminishing the quality of that content because their budgets are continually thinner," he said. "This is an absurd choice because the audience least interested in news has already abandoned the newspaper."
  • The newspapers that survive will probably do so with some kind of hybrid content: analysis, interpretation and investigative reporting in a print product that appears less than daily, combined with constant updating and reader interaction on the Web.
  • But the time for launching this strategy is growing short if it has not already passed. The most powerful feature of the Internet is that it encourages low-cost innovation, and anyone can play
  • Clayton Christensen has noted, the very qualities that made companies succeed can be disabling when applied to disruptive innovation. Successful disruption requires risk taking and fresh thinking.
  • One of the rules of thumb for coping with substitute technology is to narrow your focus to the area that is the least vulnerable to substitution.
  • What service supplied by newspapers is the least vulnerable?
  • I still believe that a newspaper's most important product, the product least vulnerable to substitution, is community influence
  • The raw material for this processing is evidence-based journalism, something that bloggers are not good at originating.
  • Newspapers might have a chance if they can meet that need by holding on to the kind of content that gives them their natural community influence. To keep the resources for doing that, they will have to jettison the frivolous items in the content buffet.
  • But it won't be a worthwhile possibility unless the news-paper endgame concentrates on retaining newspapers' core of trust and responsibility
  • arnie Grossblatt on 28 Oct 08
     
    Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.
Derik Dupont

Digital Revolution Shakes Foundations of Book Retailing - WSJ.com - 2 views

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  • Derik Dupont on 21 May 10
     
    Barnes & Noble, the leader in bookselling for 40 years, re-examines its business model." />
Kori Kamradt

Pearson Answers Schwarzenegger's Call for E-Textbooks - 0 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...CA6666090.html

e-books text books California

shared by Kori Kamradt on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Kori Kamradt on 19 Jun 09
     
    Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed replacing school textbooks with e-books in order to help plug a state budget gap. Now, textbook giant Pearson has responded with digital content to supplement California's programs in biology, chemistry, algebra 2, and geometry.
  • Amanda Litvinov on 19 Jun 09
     
    Let the revolution begin!!
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