by Allen Weiner | February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a previous blog post, I debated aloud the merits of value-added e-books, questioning a consumer’s interest in paying a few more dollars for an e-book that contained videos, puzzles or whatnot. Also, given the current scrum among platform and device providers, was there a clear path toward creating enhanced content? What never dawned on [...]
Category: Publishing Tags: e-books, Financial Times, FT, Pearson
by Allen Weiner | February 19, 2010 | Comments Off
It is a good time to be a lawyer The U.S. Department of Justice has given its approval to the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal which will add search results from Microsoft’s Bing to Yahoo search result pages. The deal also includes Yahoo’s ability to sell premium search advertising for both companies. Yahoo has indicated it intends [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: consumer search, Denny Chin, Google, Google Books, Google Editions, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments
Let’s try and untangle the congested freeway of e-book news that had led to the enhanced content myth. No matter what business model evolves as the de fact online retail model (wholesale to retail or agency model), publishers are struck, for the most part, with existing market pricing for best-sellers. With $9.99 being the norm, [...]
Category: Publishing Tags: Adobe, Apple, e-books, e-readers, iPad, Kindle, Nook
