Posted on May 22nd, 2012 by in
Digital Notes
The announcement that Waterstones, the nearest UK equivalent to Barnes & Noble as a bookselling chain, will be selling the Kindle in their stores came as somewhat of a shock. There had been rumors that B&N was closing in on a deal to partner with Waterstones on the Nook. ...
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Tagged As: From, Kindle, News, Selling, Shocking, Waterstones
Posted on May 20th, 2012 by in
Digital Notes
This post contains a batch of observations from this year’s London Book Fair. Some of it recalled an experience from about 20 years ago. We’ll begin there. In the early 1990s, Microsoft was on a mission to get computer hardware manufacturers to install CD-Rom drives i...
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Tagged As: 2012, Book, Fair, Learned, London, provoked, Things, Thoughts
Posted on May 19th, 2012 by in
Digital Notes
The DoJ lawsuit and settlement, Amazon’s next giant step of growth in sales, the Business Week article on Amazon pushing publishers to allow them to print slow-movers on demand, and then this morning’s New York Times story about a book driven down to a price of zero...
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Tagged As: Amazon’s, Growth, lengthening, shadow
