Seth Godin at TOC on creative book-publishing
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Some food for thought for the publishing industry outside the standard paradigms - must see!
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Sony’s flawed Reader launch in Germany
Saturday, February 28th, 2009On the backdrop of Sony’s e-reader launch in Germany on March 11th I was asked to review it for rbb-TV yesterday. For all non-German readers of this post: Amazon’s Kindle is not yet available in Germany and Amazon is really secretive about the reasons and when it finally plans to launch. Rumour has it that [...]
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Book marketing - does giving them away for free sell books?
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Not just since Google rolled out their Book Search program the debate about giving access to book content for free online has heated up. Opponents are convinced this will cannibalize book sales while proponents see it as a marketing factor: having the entire books indexed and at least in parts available online would make the [...]
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Books to read before you die
Saturday, July 12th, 2008There are always so many books I want to read but every time I finally find some time I’ve forgotton all about them again. To help you select the next must-read we’ve compiled a list of must-read-lists. Put them on your quillp-wishlist and get even better suggestions of must-read books directly from your friends by [...]
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