Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Amazon Creates New 'X Factor' or Crowdsourcing Offer

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This week Amazon added another layer to their offer, a new ‘crowdsourcing’ book submission one, which as with all things Amazon today,...

SWETS Go Bust

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We remember well the lucrative STM journals market and the value added role the subscription agents had carved out consolidating su...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014

History, Trends and Digital Changes in Media

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Digital Music News have taken RIAA data and produced an interesting animated graphic of the changes in music purchases over the last 3...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Is Amazon Poised to Steal Print On Demand?

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Many saw Print On Demand (POD) as the ultimate ‘just in time’ production solution to book publishing, which would wipe out all the i...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Amazon Gets All Twitchy

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We have long argued about the logic of joining up the media dots. Some see this as merging the technology and using one technology arch...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Hear, See and Speak - No Used eBooks?

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How do industry bodies and major players respond to new entrants who offer something different? Do they go out to squash them in order...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Amazon Deliver A PR Bomb To Hachette?

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The problem with any open confrontation is that often things that were really said in public have a habit of rising to the surface and...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Five Digital Changes To Respond To

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Battle lines are being drawn in the digital book arena and these are changing both in terms of goals and measures of success. The ch...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Amazon Goes Unlimited

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Today, the market is talking about the Amazon offer, Kindle Unlimited, which certainly is a smart name as it aims to do exactly what i...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Art or the Future of the Printed Book?

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This weekend in a quiet small local market in Bath we came across two stalls which caught our eye. One was selling lampshades at £75...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Are Books Merely a Form of Physical Decoration?

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Some will say we are party poopers and that we should applaud and celebration the British Museum’s novel use of the book to create a...
Monday, July 07, 2014

Do Bookshops Have A 2020 Vision?

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We have all read about the decline of the independent bookstores in the UK and US. However, we have also seen the relaunch of Foyles...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Self-Publish And Be Dammed?

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We read today of rise of self-publishing and the claims that ‘Self-publishing boom lifts sales by 79% in a year’ made by industry a...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Midsummer Maddness Book Royalties

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Does anybody know where to find Raymond Buxton? It must be Summer and the heat must be sending some barmy with thoughts of erect...