This post will discuss a realization I had even before this morning’s news about the developing e-products scene. I’ve always been a skeptic about enhanced ebooks, based on seeing my hunch that they wouldn’t work come true 15 years ago with CD-Roms. But it is increasingly obvious that CD-Rom type thinking will work very well […]
Amazon adds a feature they ridiculed when Nook announced it a year ago, and the implications
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle will make a “lending” feature available, allowing “owners” of a Kindle file to enable somebody else to read the book or magazine or newspaper for 14 days. Each purchaser of each ebook will be allowed to make only one such loan one time. They will not have access […]
The unit of appreciation and the unit of sale
My professional background — indeed, most of my life that isn’t family, friends, baseball, and politics — is trade publishing: the publishing that is intended for consumers and which got its name becaiuse it has been transacted primarily through “the trade”: bookstores. But this past week I spent two full days with the Publisher Advisory […]
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