I stumbled across a Sarah Weinman post from a few months ago that posits the notion that the chain bookstore (by which it would appear she means the superstores of the past 20 years, not the chain bookstores in malls that grew up in the prior 20 years) perhaps had a natural life cycle which […]
Archives for June 2011
Amazon’s Sunshine Program is another wake-up call for the Big Six
Amazon began a program on June 1 that will apparently run for two weeks. When you go to the Kindle home page, there’s a banner across the top reading “Sunshine Deals, Over 600 Books on Sale for $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99”. These books are not from the big agency publishers, who set their own prices. […]
Are open markets for ebooks a race to the bottom on price? Maybe our London show will help me understand
Sometimes something seems very obvious to me, but other people — smart people I respect — don’t see it that way and it makes me wonder if I’m missing something. What I’m thinking about that way today is the future of “open territories” in the ebook world. When English-language rights are sold to US and […]