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Randy Townsend

Daily Beast Seeks to Publish Faster - 2 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/books/29beas.html

started by Randy Townsend on 30 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Randy Townsend

Disney Tries to Pull the Storybook Ritual Onto the Web - 2 views

started by Randy Townsend on 29 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
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?
arnie Grossblatt

The Future for Online Dictionaries - 0 views

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    Online dictionary sites depend on advertising revenue but this model is in jeopardy as search engines extend functionality
Brooke Morris

How to Chase the Long Tail - Search Engine Watch (SEW) - 0 views

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    Publishers that understand how to leverage the existence of the long tail can reap rich awards for their efforts, but chasing it isn't easy. Can you afford not to chase it?
arnie Grossblatt

Novice Authors Must Promote Themselves, Since Publishers Won't - 0 views

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    How self-published authors are re-defining the rules of book promotion.
arnie Grossblatt

The Joy of Wikis - Online Recipes Get E-Tweaks - 0 views

  • The content is, also, free of editorial interference or commercial pressure. The model, enthusiasts say, has a unique ability to capture “the long tail” — providing useful information on a wide swath of esoteric subjects, like how to make pasta in a paper shredder.
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    is the crowd better source of cooking information than a master chef? Could your next cookbook be a wiki?
Derik Dupont

More Time Requested in Google Book Scanning Case - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Authors Guild and others request more time in the Google book-scanning case.
Debbie Bezanson

The Economist and the librarian-economist on the Google settlement | Au Courant - 0 views

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    Sorry. The previous bookmark doesn't appear to have worked. Here is the original blog post which links to the Economist podcast.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Books and the Judge: The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Google is planning to become the worlds largest bookstore with a print-on-demand agreement to give access to two million out-of-print books.
arnie Grossblatt

Redactor Agonistes - T - 0 views

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    A former Senior VP and Executive Editor of Random House looks back on the industry to provide a measure of change and suggests some overlooked opportunities.
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