A More Solid Bet for Amazon
According to a press release on Amazon.com’s Web site today, the online seller announced the acquisition of Fabric.com, a leading online fabric store that offers custom measured and cut fabrics, as...
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Don’t Compare Specs, Compare Content
Thinking of the Amazon.com Kindle Fire as an iPad killer doesn’t illuminate the issue of how tablets and e-readers are impacting the future of publishing. Fire is aimed first at Barnes & Noble and...
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Amazon Continues Publishing World Domination with Magazine Subscription Manager
From a press release that went out at 9 a.m. EDT today: Amazon.com today announced that customers can now manage all of their print magazine subscriptions in one place, no matter where they were...
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The Trouble with Amazon
Ever since the New York Times discovered that Amazon.com has 122 new books in the works the blogosphere is filled with shrill cries that Amazon as a publisher threatens publishing. Wrong. That’s not...
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Amazon.com Continues to Flow
If you run a $50 billion company and announce that your sales are up 44% going into the holiday season shouldn’t Wall Street give you a standing ovation? Not if you’re Amazon and your profit margins...
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Seth Godin on the Road to Damascus
His fascinating and important Domino Project concluded, Seth Godin is still pondering writing and reading and all things in between. Godin’s latest post, Selling vs. Reading, includes the usual...
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Diplomacy in Action: State Department Sides with Amazon
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried: Diplomacy In Action Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Amazon.com Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will announce the global launch of the Kindle Mobile...
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SEO and Metadata
I understand why people would believe that SEO and metadata are joined at the hip. Metadata is all about making it easy to find (or “discover”) a book. SEO – search engine optimization – is the science...
View ArticleReading the 2012 Bestseller Lists
The era of the wide-open and transparent web met its match when the largest etailer in the land, Amazon.com, decided that honesty is not necessarily the best policy. It’s not that Amazon lies. It’s...
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Barnes & Noble Divides $300 Million in Half
The December 4th announcement of Microsoft’s retreat from Barnes & Noble is well documented. Barnes & Noble demonstrated how to turn $300 million into $125 million (OK, less than half). The...
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