Truth Trumps Fiction: Amazon Unveils Its Latest Kindle Innovation — Signed E-Books
An April Fool’s post is bested by reality — but that doesn’t mean the idea isn’t silly anyhow.
An April Fool’s post is bested by reality — but that doesn’t mean the idea isn’t silly anyhow.
A best-selling author turns down a $500,000 advance in order to self-publish, while a self-published author who has earned $2 million takes a book contract. What’s going on here?
The New York Times is likely to introduce institutional pricing now that it is beginning to charge for consumer access.
Innovation requires planning for adoption. Publishers can win in the long-haul by following maps others have drawn.
The HarperCollins e-book lending limitations provide lessons in how both sides typically deal with change.
A clever marketing video from the American Institute of Physics and their UniPHY initiative.
The revolution in book publishing shares some aspects with revolutions everywhere. Here’s a short slideshow by the founder of Smashwords examining current motivations for authors.
[Phone rings.] Librarian: Hello? Sales Rep: Hello! Robert from Acme Scholarly Journals here. As you know, for the past year we’ve been working on a new pricing model for our journal package, and now that it’s ready my boss and […]
Customers have accepted the analogy that they “buy” e-books, but publishers may be faced with accepting the fact that they’re selling licenses. What this could mean to their bottom lines may not be the most painful part of this shift.
Apple’s apparent abuse of its platform dominance may signal a basic incompatibility between providers and platforms.
Complexity, culture, and baked-in bias are limiting how publishers define value and approach the future.
Business models for publishers fall into four broad categories, defined by how revenue is generated. Some classes of content lend themselves to one model over another.
Maligned though it often is, the Big Deal for journals is likely to get bigger, marginalizing the offerings of smaller publishers.
A report on book circulation at the Cornell library invites speculation as to how book publishers will have to continue to market their books even after they are sold: aftermarketing.