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Pay to play: Would you pay to browse for books?

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:00:56 +0000

Would you pay to browse a bookstore’s shelves? Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK & International, discussed that concept during a recent interview on BBC’s The Bottom Line with Evan Davis. “In America, certain shoe shops are charging to try on shoes. These people just go in, try them on and go and order them online,” [...]

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Show Notes: Digital Book World 2013

Aggregated Content — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:00:16 +0000

By Brian Howard Book Business, one of TeleRead’s sister publications, spent the last two days soaking up the publishing wisdom on display at the Digital Book World conference at the Hilton New York. You can check their Twitter feed, @bookbusinessmag, for the full play by play. Below are some highlights. * * * » Following the Children’s Content in Context breakout session on [...]

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Brief notes from the Frankfurt Book Fair

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:53:50 +0000

Paid Content’s Laura Hazard Owen is currently in Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair. Earlier this morning she filed a brief post about the changes Barnes & Noble and Kobo are experiencing as they continue moving their retail operations abroad. Apparently Michael Tamblyn, Kobo’s EVP of content sales and merchandising, had some interesting (and especially wise) [...]

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Reading E-Books on Smartphones – How popular is it?

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:42:16 +0000

Last week, Digital Book World editorial director Jeremy Greenfield shared the details of an interesting (if non-scientific) e-reading study; it was conducted via DBW’s Twitter account, which has more than 20,000 followers. The tweet itself was simple enough; it read this like: Do you read on your smartphone? Do you read on other devices, too? Tell us! As of September [...]

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Kobo announces ereader firmware upgrade

Paul Biba — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:47:57 +0000

Michael Tamblyn of Kobo has just announced an upgrade to their ereader firmware. Here’s what the Kobo blog says about it. I’ll do without the blockquotes: We are very happy to announce that we have firmware upgrades on the way for Kobo eReader customers. I’m going to give as much detail as I can on [...]

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Michael Tamblyn of Kobo talks about what he has learned

Paul Biba — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:00:28 +0000

From the Kobo blog, this talk discusses, among other things: Two early mistakes we made and how we fixed them; 5 things that every publisher must have to win in ebooks; Why Kobo jumped into the eInk game with the $149 eReader; A day (and a week!) in the life of a digital reader; The [...]

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