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Is Amazon Killing Author Joy?
Years of fighting between Amazon and the publishing world has almost everyone taking sides. In the wake of this summer’s controversy over mistreating workers, it would be easy to blame the company for taking away even the noncommercial, celebratory parts of writing a book. But is the online retailer really to blame? Or is this just […]
How Napster changed book PR and what that means for authors
Just over a decade ago, the music industry was rocked to its core. The demand for great music remained unchanged, but the way in which music lovers were obtaining it was unlike anything the industry had seen before. Using file sharing sites like Napster, LimeWire, and eventually iTunes, people were able to get their music […]
Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Susan Williams, Executive Editor, Jossey-Bass
In our weekly blog, we’ve been checking in with industry leaders from all facets of the business – editorial to marketing to sales, to find out how the shift to digital platforms, the weakened economy, and the diminishing number of brick and mortar stores is affecting how they do their jobs. This week, we spoke […]
Vook. The e-book answer?
Making the leap from printed page to digital screen is still an experience in its infancy. Fueled by new apps for the iPhone and propelled by Oprah’s love of the Kindle, more and more people are trading in their paper books for digital versions. But other than a lighter briefcase, the advantages are hard to […]
Kindle boasts success; Reader gets my Nod
Jeff Bezos is welcoming customers to the homepage today of Amazon today with news that the Kindle is back in stock. His cover note (.pdf) on the online seller’s site links not only to the company’s annual letter to shareholders, which is all about the electronic reader, but also boasts of the product’s more than […]
Go Digital or Die
We in the publishing world have come a long way in recent weeks in putting real clout and actual staff behind our opinion that the importance of digital media in marketing a book is growing fast and, in fact, has probably hit what Malcolm Gladwell so elegantly dubbed “the tipping point.” If digital media isn’t […]
Bezos’ Kindle rocks the book world
Jeff Bezos, the man who reinvented the way the world buys books with Amazon.com, has started a new firestorm of publishing controversy this week, releasing the latest in a series of electronic gadgets which, by design, could render the books we hold, read, linger over, revist, catalogue and collect — all but obsolete. Others have […]
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