Craig Mod has written a magnificent post – Books in the Age of the iPad. Please do read it. Perhaps the highlight are these parts – Let’s divide content into two broad groups. Content without well-defined form (Formless Content (Fig. 1)) Content with well-defined form (Definite Content (Fig. 2)) Formless Content can be reflowed into different formats [...]
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Scribd has talked in the past about bypassing the Kindle Store and getting books straight to Kindle owners and today they’ve unveiled exactly how they plan to do this. Scribd’s strategy for Kindles, eReaders and mobile devices Scribd’s strategy can be summed up as ‘become the universal, open platform that works across all eReaders, phones, and mobile devices and [...]
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It’s rare to find anyone taking newspapers to task over the fact that they always blame extrinsic factors, their tools, and never admit any responsibility for the ongoing struggles of the newspaper business. This post will do exactly that – with a focus on how newspapers are mistreating eReaders and Content. Newspapers tend to blame [...]
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This may seem like an easy answer – books. eReaders are obviously best suited for long form reading. However, what about short stories and serialized books? The Atlantic started selling short stories for the Kindle priced at $3.99 each at the very end of 2009. It’d be interesting to see what their sales numbers were. The [...]
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