Will Amazon Grow Bored with Publishing?

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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 …