Flat World Knowledge’s Disruptive Business Model: Q&A with Co-Founder Eric Frank, Part 2 June 24, 2011 | Yvette M. Chin | 2 “Clearly we’re threatening. We’re giving away books for free online.” Eric Frank
Flat World Knowledge’s Disruptive Business Model: Q&A with Co-Founder Eric Frank, Part 1 June 21, 2011 | Yvette M. Chin | 4 “When you put it all together, we have a nice, healthy looking balance sheet around a really different model.” Eric Frank
Indies to Agency Five: Where’s the Love? November 23, 2010 | Emily Williams | 2 By Emily Williams | “Publishers are not seeing those lost sales because the lift in eBook sales in general masks the disaffection.”
F+W Media, Ingram in eCommerce Collaboration June 2, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 3 “The agreement will add approximately 500,000 additional book titles…”
New Benchmark for eBook Sales, and New Questions May 24, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 6 By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “The effects of Apple’s iBooks and agency model pricing will finally move beyond speculation.”
Why Don’t Publishers Market ALL of Their Books? April 23, 2010 | DBW | 11 By Jane Friedman || “Everyone in publishing acknowledges the system is not ideal. It is in fact broken.”
Who Will “Save” Publishing? (Roundtable: 4/22/10) April 21, 2010 | DBW | 4 Roundtable: 4/22/10|| Topic: Who Will “Save” Publishing? Who Will "Save" Publishing? [ 32:56 ]
Laura Dawson: Metadata Evangelist April 12, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 18 By Marian Schembari || “I’m loving the recognition that identifiers and metadata are important marketing tools!”
Digital Comics: Level the Playing Field, Part II April 2, 2010 | DBW | 5 By Jim Fallone || “No other print medium is better suited to take advantage of the screen.”
iPad Reviews Raise Doubts About eBook Impact April 1, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 19 “Mostly positive, though not without notable caveats.”
The Agency Model (Roundtable: 4/1/10) March 31, 2010 | DBW | 7 Roundtable: 4/1/10 || Topic: The Agency Model The Agency Model [ 33:35 ]
What’s the Difference Between an eBook and an App? March 11, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 26 By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “Are publishers jumping from the frying pan into the fryer by favoring Apps over eBooks?”
Publishing Math Games (Roundtable: 3/4/10) March 3, 2010 | DBW | 3 Roundtable: 3/4/10 || Topic: Publishing Math Games Publishing Math Games [ 33:05 ]
eBook 201: eBook Production Intensive WEBcasts February 18, 2010 | DBW | 15 eBook 201: eBook Production Intensive WEBcast series, taught by Joshua Tallent, Founder/CEO, eBook Architects.
Don Linn, Optimistic Book Lover February 12, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 2 By Marian Schembari || “If you’re a traditional business, you have to manage your old business while transitioning to the new.”
The Thorny Issue of eBook Royalties February 3, 2010 | DBW | 5 By Sharon Blackie BA (Hons), MA, PhD || “On the average e-book… we don’t make any more than we do on the sale of an average print book.”
Amazon Blinks, Blames Macmillan January 31, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 17 Amazon capitulates, but offers a warning: “Kindle is a business for Amazon, and it is also a mission. We never expected it to be easy!”
A Love for Print at Digital Book World December 21, 2009 | DBW | 2 by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “It’s a bit crazy to think of print as the underdog, but…”
Indie Booksellers Need to Reject “Status” Quo December 14, 2009 | DBW | 2 By Elizabeth Burton || “Most of them also seem to hate the idea that books are products, so there’s a second layer of resistance to that concept.”
Indie Booksellers and the Digital Transition: Opportunity Knocks? November 16, 2009 | DBW | 0 #DBW The independent bookseller — our partners, curators and, most importantly, community organizers.
SBS Unveils New E-Commerce Hub October 14, 2009 | DBW | 1 eDC offers “a faster, cheaper and easier way to ship books from printers to customers.”
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