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July 2014 Must-Read Content
The Pew Research Center has catalogued how many web pages we may look at in…
What An Ebook Slump Means For The Publishing Supply Chain
The slowdown in the growth rate for sales of eBooks has prompted a rolling discussion…
Why ‘All-You-Can-Eat’ Content Subscriptions Will Struggle
In posts written earlier this week, I alluded to a couple of ways that publishers…
We Need A Level Playing Field: Publishing VS Amazon, Google And Apple
If you ask most book publishers what keeps them up at night, “Amazon” is sure…
The tension between access and perceived quality
Andrei Hagiu, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, and Julian Wright, an economics professor…
Collusion and Business Models Are Not the Same
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice decided to sue several publishers and an…
Thinking More Broadly About Digital Exports
In the last year-plus, Livres Canada Books commissioned us to research and write two research…
Solving Problems That Pre-Date Browsers
Yesterday, Digital Book World featured a guest post by Chris Rechtsteiner, chief strategist for Blue…
Fighting Scale with Something Other than Scale
Yesterday, I linked to Eric Hellman’s post about “Publishing’s Amazon-powered future“. In it, Hellman outlined…