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Are free ebooks a good idea or not?

January 24, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 47 Comments

Kindle is certainly engendering a lot of confusion by billboarding the downloads of free ebooks as “sales.” That paradoxical scorekeeping was the lead for an article by Motoko Rich in The New York Times on Saturday that quoted a lot of people, some apparently disagreeing with each other, but none of them necessarily wrong. There […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Free", Amazon, Brian O'Leary, Chris Anderson, David Young, DRM, Hachette, Harper Collins, HarperStudio blog, Hyperion, Kindle, Kobo, Len Shatzkin, Magellan Media, Michael Tamblyn, Mindy Stockfield, Motoko Rich, New York Times, Penguin, Random House, Steve Ross, Tim McCall, USA Today

Prices of ebooks and related matters

February 24, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

A great conversation broke out on the blog for Bob Miller’s new Harper imprint, HarperStudio I realized after I wrote a response that it summarized what might be useful thinking for publishers wrestling with the revenue potential of ebooks because it presents a frame, a way to think about it.  Because it starts at the […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: experimentation, HarperStudio blog, retail margins, value and scarcity

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