January 2012
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“The wilderness is the term for the years (or decades) that a founder /...”
– via Seth Godin’s Reconsidering Gartner’s Hype Cycle post.
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“It’s painful, expensive, time-consuming, stressful and ultimately...”
– via Seth Godin’s When The World Changes post.
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“The majority of my sales come from Amazon and my ability to use the tools they...”
– via JA Konrath’s The Value of Publicity.
If there is anyone providing more hands-on insight into how book purchase decisions are made, I’ve yet to find them.
His understanding of how the Amazon game is played is also likely second to none.
If you are in any way associated with the...
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“Amazon, in other words, appears to be boldly breaching its contracts with these...”
– Quote courtesy of the Authors Guild.
I’m not sure what they (or anyone else) would expect from Amazon. Of course they are going to use brute force to shape their most important markets … just as every other company on the planet is trying to do.
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The Changing Face of News Apps
The descriptions for the Memphis Commercial Appeal iOS app and Android app aren’t much to write home about.
Enjoy local news and information from The Memphis Commercial Appeal on your iPhone. The newspaper named the best of its size in Tennessee by the Associated Press delivers breaking news along with daily coverage of government, education, business, entertainment, college and prep sports,...
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Limited Access v. Added Value, A Pay Wall Debate
Limiting access to content hasn’t been the right answer for anything on the web, and it isn’t suddenly going to become the right answer for news on the web, either.
Rather than trying to limit content, publishers need to experiment with the ways they engage their readers.
No one can begrudge a publisher for needing to realize additional revenue from their news content. In most...
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The Greatest Threat to Amazon May Just Be...
The greatest threat to libraries today isn’t apathy. It’s funding. Funding and creativity, to be exact.
Where libraries were once able to rely on plentiful municipal funds, they are now dependent upon dwindling donations and fund-raising efforts to keep rapidly diminishing programs afloat. What was once the center of a community, the library is now little more than a budget deficit fighting for a...