A headline in the Wall Street Journal today promised that a senior executive at Amazon had finally spoken openly about the ongoing dispute between the online retail giant and Hachette Book Group, one of the mainstays of publishing and a member of the Big Five. And the remarks attributed did come from VP Russ Grandinetti, but that's really where the amazement of the announcement … [Read more...] about No News Is Still News for Amazon, Hachette Dispute
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New Digital Site and Conference from Founders of AllThingsD
The founders of the Wall Street Journal owned AllThingsD digital news and tech column have split from the News Corp owned group and launched their own site, Re/Code, which went live on January 2nd. Co-founders and digital industry veterans Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher have also created a new conference, Code, as part of their new venture. The site formerly known as … [Read more...] about New Digital Site and Conference from Founders of AllThingsD
Buying Your Way Up the Bestseller List
First, it was the book reviews. News broke last year that authors could buy five-star reviews for next to nothing, helping to boost their sales while duping potential readers into thinking this was a not-to-be-missed read. Shortly after, unscrupulously business-minded authors discovered they could also pay those same reviewers to spit out one-star reviews on the title that … [Read more...] about Buying Your Way Up the Bestseller List
WSJ Reports on Tracking Consumers’ e-Reading Habits
According to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, e-reading is providing valuable but intrusive information to publishers. While the television and film industries have long relied on screenings and focus groups to provide feedback about the likes and dislikes in those forms of entertainment, participants are generally aware that they are taking part in a study. Tablet … [Read more...] about WSJ Reports on Tracking Consumers’ e-Reading Habits
Publishers See the Benefits of the 99 Cent eBook
Ever since the surge in popularity of e-reading, a near battle has been waged between the camps of publishing, pitting digital versus traditional. At the start, criticisms of what low ebook prices will do to the print market have been lobbed at the proponents of the under-three-dollar ebook amid claims that pricing an ebook at 99-cents would ruin the industry. Since the … [Read more...] about Publishers See the Benefits of the 99 Cent eBook
Ebook Pricing Still a Mystery to Some Publishers
GigaOM reported today on a Wall Street Journal article that asks the question as to whether traditional publishing houses really know what they’re doing when it comes to setting the price of digital editions of their titles. For the most part, the answer seems to be an overwhelming no. The article hastened to point out that the Big Six and Apple are being investigated on two … [Read more...] about Ebook Pricing Still a Mystery to Some Publishers
Exclusive Kindle Fire App Released by the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has officially unveiled their new Kindle Fire Application today. You can now download it for free from the Amazon Android App Store and has various subscription fees for content. When you have the new WSJ app on your trusty Kindle Fire you can pay $17.99 per month for a full subscription. This gives you access to the online version of the paper and … [Read more...] about Exclusive Kindle Fire App Released by the Wall Street Journal
Juvenile E-Reading: The Kids Are Ready, But Are The Parents?
We may have hopefully put the days of the heated “print vs. digital” debates behind us. The consumers, the retailers, and even the publishing industry have all pretty much declared that digital reading is not a flash-in-the-pan fad, but that paper isn’t going away any time soon. The two formats have been predicted to live side-by-side for the foreseeable future. But one … [Read more...] about Juvenile E-Reading: The Kids Are Ready, But Are The Parents?
Wall Street Journal Suspends Subscriptions via its iOS App
News Corp owners of the Wall Street Journal have decided to suspend subscriptions via its application for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad. They decided to stop all new subscription sign-ups rather than let Apple take %30 of every new sign up. If you have downloaded the Wall Street Journal application via the app store and want to subscribe to the publication you will have to … [Read more...] about Wall Street Journal Suspends Subscriptions via its iOS App