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“Platforms” are not exclusively the purview of Kindle, NOOK, and other retailers

October 17, 2012 by Jess 11 Comments

I am recently awakened to the importance of “platforms” in our dynamic digital publishing world. Some could say I’m slow on this one (and they’d be right). Perhaps it is the “to the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail” syndrome in action, but my belated awareness reminds me once again that the […]

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Hats off to Amazon

September 10, 2012 by Mike Shatzkin 73 Comments

When the story of how Amazon came to dominate the consumer book business is written ten years from now, there will need to be a chapter entitled “September 6, 2012”. Of course, that was the day that Judge Cote approved the settlement agreed to by HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster and began the process […]

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