Entries in Books
Sep 2, 2010
Know your rights
Not just moving old wine to new bottles
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Aug 26, 2010
Challenges and opportunities
An interview about reshaping publishing
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Aug 13, 2010
Moral panics
Patry, copyright and piracy
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Aug 6, 2010
From mass to boutique
Print may decline, but it won't go away
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Aug 3, 2010
What’s the fuss?
A quarter of a million dollars, the easy way
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Jul 30, 2010
Dead Elvis
I should get up
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Jul 28, 2010
Making frenemies
The world’s largest non-imprint publisher is …
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Jul 26, 2010
It makes no sense
It makes perfect sense
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Jun 19, 2010
Preserving formats
An interim option, not a solution
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Jun 18, 2010
Another modest proposal
Decisions made without data are better labeled "guesswork"
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Jun 14, 2010
Strangers sharing content
... till there are no strangers anymore
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Jun 7, 2010
The walls we build up
An open letter to AG president Scott Turow
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Jun 4, 2010
A privilege to be objects
Inventing things before we know what they are for
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May 28, 2010
Lake Wobegon Daze
The industry doth protest too much, methinks
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May 26, 2010
Shrinking to grow
ABA membership is up, slightly
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May 25, 2010
A resounding “kinda”
Improving on reporting about piracy
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May 24, 2010
New gatekeepers
The reviewers who matter most
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May 18, 2010
Not all that
On DRM, value and price
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May 17, 2010
Songbirds
Like they know the score
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May 14, 2010
Disclosure, and discussion
Using data to better understand piracy's impact
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May 12, 2010
Serendipitous search
Content solutions, freed from form
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May 11, 2010
Weapons of mass distraction
Devices: neither solution nor problem
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May 9, 2010
Sound advice
What Don Linn said
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May 7, 2010
Beyond the page
Linking ECM and business intelligence
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May 3, 2010
Mobile reading 201
Useful e-book resources from Threepress Consulting
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May 3, 2010
Authors at the gate
O’Reilly Radar takes a first look at the iBook Store
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Apr 30, 2010
Live in interesting times
Music sales are growing in 13 major markets
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Apr 29, 2010
Making literature great
Standing on the shoulders of giants …
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Apr 23, 2010
Too crowded?
Opening up publishing to the once unpublished
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Apr 22, 2010
Cross-platform Zagat
From print to subscriptions to apps, a review at a time
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Apr 18, 2010
Making matters worse
How not to respond to a publishing mistake
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Apr 15, 2010
Attention to detail
Coming to praise print, not to bury it
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Apr 15, 2010
Piracy: instance v. impact
The GAO questions claims of sales lost to piracy
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Apr 12, 2010
See in all directions
“Like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound”
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Apr 10, 2010
300 years of copyright
From Queen Anne to Walt Disney, and back?
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Apr 9, 2010
Unintended consequences
A chance to answer an exhilarating question
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Apr 7, 2010
Theory meets practice
The new role of publishing leadership
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Apr 6, 2010
Books into games …
What to make of this vision in white?
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Apr 5, 2010
A bit of serendipity
Meaning in graffiti: a book story
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Apr 2, 2010
Do I need the middle?
The rise of an author class
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Mar 28, 2010
An agency pricing toolkit
A brief bibliography of pricing theory and practice
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Mar 26, 2010
A pricing experiment
Maximizing revenue while clawing back discounts
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Mar 25, 2010
Only connect
"Live in fragments no longer"
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Mar 24, 2010
History repeats itself …
... Just not in the neat buckets we'd hoped for
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Mar 22, 2010
Brave new worlds
Standing on the shoulders of giants, at SxSWi
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Mar 19, 2010
“Write once, read many”
Presenting the benefits of agile content at IPG 2010
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Mar 17, 2010
Where are you?
Geolocation services storm SxSWi
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Mar 15, 2010
Mothership down
Format-centric book publishing models will be hard to sustain
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Mar 14, 2010
Life after PirateBay
Founder Peter Sunde offers some thoughts at SxSWi
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Mar 10, 2010
The price of content
A function of value more than supply-chain decisions
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Mar 9, 2010
Color me Indigo
An innovative approach to a potentially disruptive future
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Mar 8, 2010
(Some) buzzwords defined
Explaining the words behind the value of “agile content”
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Mar 6, 2010
Alphabet soup
A publishing explanation of things XML
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Mar 5, 2010
In his own words
Richard Curtis reports a pirate's perspective
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Mar 4, 2010
Standing in place
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM
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Mar 2, 2010
A piracy bibliography
Links that inform our piracy research
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Mar 1, 2010
Breadth of use
Investing for a narrow set of formats and uses won't pay off
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Feb 25, 2010
Think revenue, not price
A race to the highest revenue, not the lowest price
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Feb 24, 2010
DRM restricts markets
Incompatible formats shift market power
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Feb 22, 2010
Riding the unicorn
Be careful what you wish for
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Feb 19, 2010
The value of books
What they're worth, not what they cost
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Feb 18, 2010
Availability, format, price
At the Daily Beast, "ebook first" helps seed interest
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Feb 17, 2010
Agile, now
"The Inevitable Decline of Traditional Book Publishing"
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Feb 12, 2010
Paying for what you get
What DRM doesn’t do
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Feb 11, 2010
“Don’t let us get sick”
Is the book business like the music business?
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Feb 9, 2010
The right lesson learned
What happened to the music business?
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Feb 8, 2010
Open season
Framing a proposed settlement as a defense against piracy
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Feb 2, 2010
Independents day
Creative, yes, but profitable, too?
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Jan 27, 2010
A modest proposal
“Some rooms are like cages”
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Jan 26, 2010
More weak signals
Confessions of a piracy data geek
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Jan 22, 2010
Distribute, then print
Espresso gets a faster print engine
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Jan 20, 2010
Reinventing publishing
"Get a very fast fax modem"
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Jan 20, 2010
Unicorn yes, solution no
Repeat after me: devices won't save publishing
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Jan 17, 2010
Grounded in reality
Not ink on paper, but relevant
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Jan 16, 2010
Amazon the disruptor
A self-funded lesson (but no model) for publishers
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Jan 15, 2010
Piracy: a big tent
Seeking first to understand some new data
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Jan 12, 2010
Reader madness
Breathless inflection points, take a chill pill
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Jan 10, 2010
The economics of choice
Variety: much more than the spice of life
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Jan 9, 2010
Something borrowed
Countering the greater risk: people not reading
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Jan 8, 2010
Disrupting journals
“Sustaining” technologies help; “disruptive” ones shift
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Dec 30, 2009
Future imperfect
Podcasting my way forward
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Dec 17, 2009
Theory v. practice
I'll take "practice" for $1,000, Alex
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Dec 17, 2009
Things break
From partner to rival in one product pricing decision
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Dec 14, 2009
Preserving business models
Sometimes, it’s better to just fall
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Dec 10, 2009
“Hands-on” POD
Help us develop your own print-on-demand model
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Dec 10, 2009
E-book “windowing”
Release date decisions spark debate
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Dec 8, 2009
Digital short stories
The Atlantic makes a Kindle deal to sell short stories
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Dec 7, 2009
Tis the season …
... to hate e-books?
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Dec 5, 2009
Wealthy, wireless, wise
MRI researches who owns e-readers
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Dec 4, 2009
Piracy on the wane?
Trends gleaned from the limited data available
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Nov 2, 2009
Audience, not device
"Six Implications of Digital Vertical Niches"
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Oct 30, 2009
“Mobile reading comes of age”
A presentation given at an NFAIS workshop
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Oct 29, 2009
Copernican evolution
We never were the "center of the universe"
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Oct 28, 2009
Drucker on customers
"The hardest to learn was the least complicated"
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Oct 25, 2009
Household math, continued
With a Kindle, more reading, less spending (part 2)
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Oct 23, 2009
“DRM-restricted”
Not just a change in words: a shift in mindset
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Oct 20, 2009
A mobile bibliography
Links that characterize mobile reading
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Oct 20, 2009
Rough Cuts, 1940s Style
Lessons from a “self-revising atlas”
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Oct 17, 2009
P2P tempest
Data on piracy makes some publishers unhappy
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Oct 5, 2009
Trust your readers
Managing piracy, not ”solving” it
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