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A Quick Note on the Fabled “iPod Moment”

By On January 16, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Publishing

There are millions of books on amazon.com, and on average each will sell around 500 copies a year. The average American is reading just one book a year, and that number is falling. The problem (to quote Tim O’Reilly) isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Authors are lucky to be in a business where electronic copies aren’t [...]

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Playing with the Kindle, Playing with the Future

By On January 12, 2010 · 9 Comments · In Publishing, Reviews

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

–Sidney J. Harris

It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of eBooks or eReaders, but there’s no question they’re growing in popularity… at least amongst technology [...]

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eBooks: The False Dilemma

By On November 30, 2009 · 36 Comments · In Publishing

People will continue to read printed books for a long time, just as some people still watch movies on VHS. But the printed book will be “dead” in a few short years in the sense that the bulk of the adoption curve, the pragmatic majority, will have moved on.

–Arvind Narayanan, “The death [...]

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The Bookstore of the Future is… a Tree Museum?

By On July 27, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Publishing

“I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
–Anna Quindlen

GalleyCat had a provocative post last week, “Is This the Bookstore of Tomorrow?“, spotlighting novelist Moriah Jovan’s anti-septic floorplan anchored by two Espresso [...]

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Can the $99 iPhone save newspapers?

By On June 9, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Marketing, Publishing

I am not a card-carrying member of the Steve Jobs Cult by any means, but the smug “Mac vs. PC” commercials aside, when it comes to innovation and marketing savvy, I bow before Apple’s altar.

Yesterday’s announcement of the “new” iPhone 3G S wasn’t greeted very warmly by some of [...]

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