Now the Big Six are all selling ebooks on the agency model. Random House has joined their five competitors. It is almost a year since Apple launched the iPad, opened the iBookstore, and delivered big publishers an opportunity to rewrite the rules of the ebook marketplace, at least for their books and at least for […]
How will you win at ebook retailing?
I read all my books on my iPhone and my idiosyncracy is to have different books open in various ebook readers at the same time. This is a drastic change from my lifetime habit of reading one book at a time. I never knew I’d enjoy reading this way because the physical limitations of carrying […]
A hot Christmas may be followed by a chilling Spring
No new facts today, just some perspective. Google has launched and Copia has launched. Kindles and Nooks are on sale in consumer electronics stores far and wide. iPads continue to roll out by the millions and recent evidence suggests that consumers are very happy reading ebooks on them. I’ve made the point on the blog […]
Don’t drown walking across the river
An aphorism that I picked up years ago that crosses my mind frequently in my professional life is that “a six-foot tall man drowns walking across a river that’s an average of three feet deep.” The point is that aggregates and averages might mask important truths. I thought of this when I read the news […]
Will juvie publishing remain a book business as tablets take over?
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 […]
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