Tag: Amazon


Feb 3, 2012
Ripple effects
Missing the boat, or sinking it?
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Feb 1, 2012
Locked things …
... meant to be unlocked
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Jan 29, 2012
Publishing plumbers
More evidence that 2012 is their year
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Jan 25, 2012
Foster reading
What can publishers do better than Amazon?
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Jan 18, 2012
Meeting expectations
E-commerce shapes how publishers compete
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Jan 14, 2012
A reader in every pot
Deciding how you want to read
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Jan 8, 2012
The next wave
Preparing for a mobile-first world
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Jan 4, 2012
This must be the place
On testing prices to maximize revenue
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Jan 3, 2012
Your mileage may vary
Navigating a multitude of paths to digital
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Dec 30, 2011
Know your niches
Segmenting device adoption and use pays off
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Dec 29, 2011
New choke points
Dan Gillmor sees a content-controller oligopoly
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Dec 19, 2011
A holiday tale
'Twas the night before eBooks
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Dec 12, 2011
How life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
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Nov 11, 2011
Not pretty enough
Everybody wants to rule the world
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Jun 20, 2011
Amberizing glasses
The dizzy spiral of goodbye
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May 18, 2011
Mobile reading resources
An updated bibliography
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May 17, 2011
Other interpretations
What anecdata show and don't tell
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Apr 21, 2011
Squeezed out?
Making nice with my frenemies just got harder
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Feb 28, 2011
Light years behind
Direct relationships would benefit from, um, relationships
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Feb 21, 2011
“Context first”, revisited
A second pass at a unified field theory of publishing
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Jan 6, 2011
A new kind of hello
A borrower and a lender be
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Oct 21, 2010
Context first
A unified field theory of publishing
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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 28, 2010
Making frenemies
The world’s largest non-imprint publisher is …
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Jun 7, 2010
The walls we build up
An open letter to AG president Scott Turow
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May 17, 2010
Songbirds
Like they know the score
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May 12, 2010
Serendipitous search
Content solutions, freed from form
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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 24, 2010
History repeats itself …
... Just not in the neat buckets we'd hoped for
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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 8, 2010
(Some) buzzwords defined
Explaining the words behind the value of “agile content”
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Feb 24, 2010
DRM restricts markets
Incompatible formats shift market power
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Feb 19, 2010
The value of books
What they're worth, not what they cost
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Feb 9, 2010
The right lesson learned
What happened to the music business?
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Jan 25, 2010
Kindle periodicals
A match not made in heaven, but ...
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Jan 16, 2010
Amazon the disruptor
A self-funded lesson (but no model) for publishers
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Dec 17, 2009
Things break
From partner to rival in one product pricing decision
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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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Aug 1, 2009
A fix on anything
Progress in periods of change requires a structured approach to innovation
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Apr 26, 2009
Curation nation
Figuring out how people will figure out what to read
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Apr 14, 2009
New channels, old problems
"Adult" books drop off Amazon lists: a review
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Apr 5, 2009
E-books: some household math
Six weeks after the Kindle came home, our book spending is down
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