Posted on January 31, 2010 by Bill Petti
Sunday’s Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has stopped selling Kindle versions of all Macmillan titles. John Sargent, Macmillian’s CEO, recently went to Amazon’s headquarters to try and negotiate new terms for the sale of e-books published by his company. In general, the publishing industry has been unhappy with Amazon’s insistence that most books be [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2010 by Bill Petti
My very first post back in August of last year examined Amazon’s attempt to disrupt the publishing industry through the release of their Kindle reading device. The irony, of course, was that while Amazon was looking to Apple and the iPod and iTunes as inspiration their plans were most likely to be thwarted (or, at [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2009 by Bill Petti
James Surowiecki from The New Yorker (and Wisdom of Crowds fame) discusses the recent ‘price war’ that broke out between Wal-Mart and Amazon: [L]ike other price wars: all the companies involved got hurt. So you might wonder why Wal-Mart recently decided to start its own price war, taking on Amazon in the online book market. [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2009 by Bill Petti
Scott Berkun discusses what he sees as the highest impact innovation in terms of books prior to the Kindle: The invention of cheap paperback books, Penguin makes books cheap enough for the average citizen (1935). This was a revolution in the U.S. as it made books cheap, portable and part of middle and lower class [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2009 by Bill Petti
New Entry in E-Books Is a Paper Tiger Not exactly the kind of glowing review they were hoping for. But as the article notes, this is version 1.0. We’ll see if they work out the bugs.
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Posted on August 3, 2009 by Bill Petti
The cover story in this month’s issue of Fast Company profiles Amazon.com and discussing the long-term strategy behind the Kindle and their push into the e-book market. The article is a great read, especially as it provides insight into Amazon’s larger strategic goal. Not only is Amazon looking to pull an Apple by disrupting and [...]
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