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arnie Grossblatt

Target, Upset With Amazon, Will Stop Selling Kindles - 4 views

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amazon kindle target business model pricing

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 03 May 12 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 May 12
     
    Target fights back against Amazon "showrooming".
Michael Pogachar

Target Now Selling Nooks - 0 views

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Nook Target Barnes & Noble

shared by Michael Pogachar on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Pogachar on 04 Oct 11
     
    Target is the eighth retailer to sell Barnes & Noble's Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch e-readers.
Derik Dupont

With Book Price War Comes Rationing - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Books Pricing Retailers Amazon Wal-Mart Target

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  • Derik Dupont on 04 Nov 09
     
    Walmart, Amazon and Target are limiting online sales of certain steeply discounted books, preventing small bookshops from taking advantage of a price war to stock their own shelves." />
Allison Begezda

First Google eBooks Device To Go on Sale at Target This Week - 1 views

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shared by Allison Begezda on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Allison Begezda on 12 Jul 11
     
    Google will make inroads into the ereader market next week when the first such device using the Google eBooks platform will go on sale at Target. The iriver Story HD will retail for $139.99 - the same price as the Kindle and the Nook Simple Touch Reader - at the chain July 17, according to a blog post from Google.
Paul Riccardi

Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

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Twitter advertising search social media

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  • Paul Riccardi on 04 Mar 09
     
    Twitter walked away from a $500 million offer from Facebook. Why? They're confident that they can find a way to tap into their unique search capabilities and make a lot of money on highly targeted advertising.
Ryan Holman

Spotify tethers future to Facebook (Social network membership mandatory for subscribers) - 1 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...he_future_of_content_platforms

spotify facebook privacy

shared by Ryan Holman on 27 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Ryan Holman on 27 Sep 11
     
    Hmm. This is British and talks about a primarily British (that I can tell) service marrying itself to Facebook, but it has interesting implications should others decide to adopt the same thing. "'There's been a big barrier to sign-up, we wanted to remove that and make it a seamless experience,' [Daniel Ek, Spotify co-founder] said in one tweet, apparently indifferent to the criticism that Spotify had just erected a barrier where there wasn't one before." "'We want to remove barrier to sign-up and create a more seamless experience...' he confirmed in a follow-up." Yep, it'll be completely seamless for the advertisers who want to target Spotify users, they can get all sorts of other info on them besides just that they downloaded Rebecca Black's "Friday"...Zuckerberg must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Paul Riccardi

Print CEO - Printing Industry News Blog - Printing Industry's Long-term Relevancy - 0 views

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shared by Paul Riccardi on 20 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Paul Riccardi on 20 Jun 09
     
    Some thoughts on how print will have to evolve in the near future and target a new wave of decision makers. I think that's us.
Derik Dupont

Magazine Publishers Talk of Creating Online Ad Network - Advertising Age - MediaWorks - 0 views

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Advertising Magazines Ad Network Publishers

shared by Derik Dupont on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 08 Oct 09
     
    Rival magazine companies are discussing teaming up to build an ad network that would sell targeted ad space across many of the industry's web sites.
Allison Begezda

The Online Price War Over Books Has a Fresh Twist (Or Two) - Media Decoder Blog - NYTim... - 2 views

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shared by Allison Begezda on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Allison Begezda on 03 Nov 09
     
    A look at the online price war between Amazon and discount stores, such as Wal-mart and Target.
Allison Hughes

California Takes a Big Step Forward: Free, Digital, Open-Source Textbooks - 0 views

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textbooks. open source. digital.

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  • Allison Hughes on 30 Sep 12
     
    This week, California took a big step forward in open-source education. Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a proposal to create a website that will allow students to download popular textbooks for free. The legislation contains two bills: One, a proposal for the state to fund 50 open-source digital textbooks, targeted to lower-division courses, which will be produced by California's universities. The other bill is a proposal to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host those books.
Stephanie Wynn

Oprah mag's iPad edition to sell e-books - Crain's New York Business - 3 views

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shared by Stephanie Wynn on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Capitalizing on Oprah Winfrey's huge role recommending books to her fans, the iPad edition of O, The Oprah Magazine, that's expected in the fourth quarter will let users buy e-books and read them within the app itself.
  • Hearst sees a lot more potential in iPad advertising than just reproducing and enhancing print ad pages.
  • once enough consumers own tablet computers, targeted and tailored advertising will be much more important
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  • Hearst is already seeing its digital ad rates increase steadily, partly because of its ability to serve ads to visitors based on their behavior and demographics
Liz Rich

Publishers' crazy e-book prices - Dan Gillmor - Salon.com - 0 views

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shared by Liz Rich on 07 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • drawbacks to e-books, at least the way Amazon and Apple sell them. They don't really sell e-books; they merely let me read them, and in the process remove my rights
  • But there are major
  • to do what I want with what I've purchased
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  • The ability to give away or sell a used book is called the “First Sale Doctrine” in copyright law. But by sending me a digital file and tethering that file to a specific device, Amazon and the publishers have removed my right to transfer it, and thereby destroyed a portion of the book's value. By all rights they should offer me a better price, considerably better, than the hardcover (or, for that matter, softcover) edition. Is a few hours' worth of portability worth everything else I lose?
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.
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  • 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.
Mike Kalyan

Additional Diigo Group for our Cohort - 60 views

I created this group for our Cohort 4 http://groups.diigo.com/groups/cohort-4-publishing-_-mps-_-gwu I've linked this as a bookmark... let's see if it works. If everyone prefers, we can move the ...

started by Mike Kalyan on 12 Sep 08 no follow-up yet
arnie Grossblatt

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The remains of the book - 1 views

www.roughtype.com/...the_seethrough_1.php

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 02 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Ralls on 02 Oct 11
     
    Nick Carr (of "The Shallows") is skeptical of the Kindle Fire's new "X-Ray" feature. He writes, "A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance. A person of the book may see the technology as a catastrophe."
  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 Oct 11
     
    Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows", raises another alarm about enhanced reading tools for e-books, but what doesn't like may be just what others find most compelling about e-books.
arnie Grossblatt

The book industry is gonna get Napstered if it forces Amazon to raise e-book prices. - ... - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Right now, the electronic-book market finds itself roughly in the same place the market for MP3s was in 1999, the year after the release of the first portable MP3 player.
  • But that could change in a matter of months if the book industry insists on 1) jacking up the price of e-books and 2) withholding potential best-sellers from the e-book market.
  • "Publishers are in denial about the economics of digital content,"
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  • Does the book industry want to join the digital flow, the way the TV industry has with Hulu and TV.com? Or by its obstruction does it intend to encourage the establishment of a Bookster?
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