7 Must-Consider Strategies for Ebook Pricing April 15, 2013 | Beth Bacon | 3 Is there room for new thinking on ebook pricing strategies? The medium is still new, so customer expectations have not been set in stone. Now’s the time for publishers and authors to think strategically about the cost of e-books. I’ve looked …
Flat World Knowledge’s Disruptive Business Model: Q&A with Co-Founder Eric Frank, Part 2 June 24, 2011 | Yvette M. Chin | 0 “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 | 0 “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 | 0 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 | 1 “The agreement will add approximately 500,000 additional book titles…”
New Benchmark for eBook Sales, and New Questions May 24, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 5 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 | 4 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 | 3 Roundtable: 4/22/10|| Topic: Who Will “Save” Publishing? Who Will "Save" Publishing? [ 32:56 ]
Laura Dawson: Metadata Evangelist April 12, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 4 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 | 4 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 | 14 “Mostly positive, though not without notable caveats.”
The Agency Model (Roundtable: 4/1/10) March 31, 2010 | DBW | 4 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 | 15 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 | 0 Roundtable: 3/4/10 || Topic: Publishing Math Games Publishing Math Games [ 33:05 ]
eBook 201: eBook Production Intensive WEBcasts February 18, 2010 | DBW | 7 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 | 1 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 | 3 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 | 6 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.”
