February 2011
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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So I wrote a thing on me Wordpress blog
And it went like this: Digital content WILL dominate the future*. You don’t have to like that, but you DO have to accept it. When you accept that you’ll begin to see that the systems behind publishing need to change rapidly or else you need to create a new organisation to work within the new rules (and economic realities). It’s time for the industry to stop worrying about Apple, Amazon and...
Feb 18th
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OR Books: Shop Talk →
orbooks: HERE is why we at OR dread dealing with intermediary sellers—sure, by spurning a behemoth like Amazon, we can feel morally superior (strange to think that Barnes & Noble is today’s underdog)—but that’s not the primary reason. It’s that the big stores are such whiners, and unfortunately they’re… John Oakes hits the nail on the head here!
Feb 9th
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Apple wants a cut of Kindle sales on iDevices? Hoo... →
ingraham: Giving Apple more benefit of doubt that they probably deserve on this issue, making purchasing work the same way in all apps would be a lovely thing for usability. In utopian ecommerce, you would buy anything for use with an app from within the app and it would always work almost the same way. Now…what’s that worth? How large a piece of each purchase is your company willing to give...
Feb 1st
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