Tag Archives: Amazon

Will Amazon Grow Bored with Publishing?

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She was his first love and he was willing to overlook her imperfections at the time. Though she could be charming, cultured and articulate, she was also dowdy and old-fashioned in tweeds and sensible shoes, unworldly and inclined to tedious …

Target Targets Amazon as Showrooming Enabler

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Independent bookstores aren’t the only retailers chafing at the practice of showroom. Just ask Target. In showrooming, customers enter a retail store and, when they have located the product they’re shopping for, walk out, go home and purchase the item …

Showdown for Showrooms

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Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Gigaom.com, reports a unique strategy for combating the practice known as “showrooming”. In showrooming, customers enter a bookstore, browse, then select (or scan the barcode of) the book they want to purchase, walk out of …

E-Book Prices Must Come Down

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If you seek cogency on digital publishing subjects you’ll always find it in Laura Hazard Owen’s postings. A good example is a recent one on the implications for consumers of the settlement agreements with the Department of Justice in its …

David Poops on Goliath

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To contemplate publishing books without partnering with Amazon is to lose a lot of sleep, weight, hair or all of the above. Luckily most of us steer well clear of any action that might provoke the behemoth to put the …

Amazon’s Fleming Acquisition May Not Bond with B&N

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In another coup for its book publishing enterprises, Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint has acquired fourteen novels in Ian Fleming’s James Bond thriller series, plus two nonfiction books by Fleming. If Amazon’s policy holds true the books will be carried …

Not Dead Yet!

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Always good to use a Python quote. I was wondering whether someone would respond. I titled the post a bit outrageously to get reactions and Jeremy Greenfield did in his post. When I say traditional publishing the focus is on …