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Submitted by Agent Orange on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 11:52

It is fantastic to see signs of a fight back against Amazon with the news that Barnes & Noble and several other North American booksellers are refusing to stock Amazon published books. Of course the fact that the blows have been struck by retailers and not by any publishers is hardly surprising.

What will be interesting to see is what, if anything, publishers do about it? Will they lend any support or will they pull up their skirts, jump on a chair and scream while the cat and mouse game plays out around them? Read more »

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"E-Book Standards" - really?

Submitted by Richard Stephenson on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 18:31

In the jostle for market share in the tablet space Amazon is betting it will sell a great deal of content through the Kindle Fire as unlike its fierce competitor Apple it does not make money on its hardware sales. Read more »

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What are we waiting for?

Submitted by Jakob Harden on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 11:22

With less than a 2 % market share, e-books are still to come in Denmark. 

The year 2011 saw a small breakthrough for e-books in Denmark.  However, we are still waiting for the big sales figures to kick in. While we are waiting, some questions are vital. Who will drive the Danish e-book market? How to deal with pricing? What kinds of business models will suit the digital book market? And how can we embrace the new possibilities? Read more »

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The book store roars back

Submitted by Philip Jones on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 18:18

Barnes & Noble has said that it will not stock, in its stores, books published under any of Amazon's imprints - including importantly those released by Amazon Publishing's East Coast Group -- run by Larry Kirshbaum -- the books from which will go to market under Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's newly named New Harvest imprint. Read more »

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The Book App is dead. Again.

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 19:25

News reaches our shores that "The love affair with apps is officially over". This is the conclusion drawn by Forrester and Digital Book World and presented at their New York conference by James McQuivey. Read more »

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A Question and Some Random Observations

Submitted by DonLinn on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 13:09

I’ve spent the last two and one-half days with about 1500 of my closest friends at Digital Book World 2012, this week’s entry into the publishing conference sweepstakes. The conference has grown tremendously in terms of attendance, number of sponsors and breadth of programming over its three-year life and along with some very good speakers and panels, provides an excellent networking opportunity. (Disclosure: I’m a conference junkie and this is one of eight or ten I’ll attend this year. Read more »

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Optimism on the wane at Digital Book World as Amazon animus grows

Submitted by Gayle Feldman on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 11:23

The book business is “like the wild west. Everyone wants to be everything", Hyperion publisher Ellen Archer said to 1500-plus attending Digital Book World in New York on Tuesday.  Where is separation between author, publisher, agent, retailer these days? Read more »

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Don't be afraid, don't be very afraid

Submitted by Philip Jones on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 16:32

As Digital Book World -- the first of the two big post-Christmas US e-book conferences -- opens, last week's education announcement by Apple shows how easy it is now for any of the big digital companies to hijack the publishing conversation. Read more »

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3 important questions about digital that nobody is asking.

Submitted by NickAtkinson7 on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 07:37

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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If Amazon really are going to kill publishers, what can they do about it?

Submitted by Agent Orange on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 16:07

It is good to see one publisher giving voice to the blindingly obvious: that “Amazon have got publishers in their sights and they’re going to kill us”. Of course it is disappointing that these comments are both anonymous and originate in the US, because if the view from over there is doom laden, it is positively apocalyptic here. Read more »

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