Amazon Applies for Patent to Advertise in Your Kindle
The patents are here and here. Speculation thereof here: Before everyone gets in a huff, let’s consider Amazon’s intentions with these patent applications. Surely they would never allow advertisements...
View ArticleInvest in Books
PW reports that the stocks of booksellers and publishers are beating the Dow Jones index by about 25% this year: Led by a remarkable rebound by book retailers, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index jumped...
View ArticleThe Life of Print
There's a lot to agree with in Eric Obenauf's "print is alive" article in The Brooklyn Rail, even if none of his arguments strike me as novel. Nonetheless, this is a pretty good summation of why...
View ArticleOn Correlating Sales and Quality
Nina Siegal has gone through the Publishers Weekly bestseller list since 1900 (I didn't realize PW kept stats this long) and attempted to correlate sales with literary quality and longevity. The...
View ArticleWal-Mart/Amazon Price War
Interesting: NEW YORK – An online book special offered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is turning into a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com. Wal-Mart got things started Thursday, offering $10 prices on...
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The Borders “In-Stock Guarantee”
Given that over the past year or so I've never actually found the novel that I'm looking for in Borders, I could make a killing here: Borders, which earlier in the year struggled to keep books in...
View ArticleMore Books You Won't Read in the U.S.
Lewis Manalo, the buyer for Idlewild Books in NYC, must be doing a good job. Though I’ve never been to the store, by all reports Idlewild has a great selection of world literature. What’s more, Manalo...
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The New Ways to Reach Readers
Kevin Smokler has an excellent op-ed at Publishing Perspectives on how authors and publishers need to think in order to reach readers. I don’t agree with all of it, but the basic message is right on...
View ArticleThe NYT's Pay Wall and Newsday's 35 Subscriptions
Levi Asher isn’t believing the NYT’s declaration that it’s going to build a pay wall: New York Times management knows that a web paywall is a bad business move right now. The market is not strong for...
View ArticleYou Really Want to Be an eBook-Only Author?
You try telling Jonathan Franzen his next novel isn’t actually being printed: What also gets squeezed, or I should say what gets squeezed the most, is the ability of publishers to continue printing...
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