Is subscription the future model for eBook retail?

In both personal and professional environments, coming from online retail at Borders and now working in publishing, people always ask me what I think the future of ebooks is going to be like. It's a big question and most of the time, professionally at least, I think they are asking what I believe the future commercial models for ebooks will be like. My opinion has veered from one point to the next as I’m sure it has with most of you, but we could be building towards a stake in the ground moment. Read more »

Australia, the land of opportunity?

Seemingly shielded from the most rampant severity of the global economic downturn, is Australia a territory ripe for the opportunistic? Read more »

3 important questions about digital that nobody is asking.

I was deliberating what I’d write about in my first post for Futurebook and begun by considering the hot subjects everyone is talking about – what % of sales could eBooks account in the future? Are Kobo or Apple genuinely going to give Amazon a run for their money in ebook sales? Read more »

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