by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Amazon has plans to change its royalty schedule for publishers beginning this summer, doing a 180 on its 70-30 split. There are rules a’plenty, but it’s a clear pre-emptive move in the face of Apple’s possible launch of a tablet-based device. Apple is said to be willing to offer publishers a split that more resembles [...]
Category: Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo blogging citizen media Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple tablet, books, Kindle, publishers, tablets
by Allen Weiner | December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
According to this report from Reuters, Yahoo is open to selling HotJobs fir the right price. If this report is true, then I suspect Yahoo’s newspaper consortium will lose much of its momentum if not outright come to an end; there are more than 600 newspapers in the consortium and HotJobs is one of the [...]
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Category: Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo blogging citizen media Tags: Bing, Google, HotJobs, Living Stories, newspaper consortium, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | November 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Author John Grisham talks about the devaluation of books as well as “uncertainty over ebooks” in this insightful interview on NBC’s “The Today Show.”
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Category: Amazon Mobile Newspapers Publishing blogging Tags: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ebooks, John Grisham, Today Show
by Allen Weiner | October 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Both Google and Microsoft (Bing) have announced plans to add Twitter results (and, in case of Microsoft, Facebook updates) to search results. This is an interesting achievement for sure, but one that leaves me in major so-what mode. There has been a lot of buzz around searching the real-time web, and both search giants have [...]
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by Allen Weiner | October 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Amazon as taken two steps to ensure it has some breathing room between itself and the burgeoning list of competitors in the eBook-ereader marketplace. The company has announced that it is lowering the price of the bestseller Kindle to $259, down from $299 as well launching the Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless. Kindle with [...]
Category: Amazon Mobile Newspapers Publishing blogging magazines Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple tablet, AT&T, IREX, Kindle, Orange, Plastic Logic, Sony Reader, Sprint, Telecom Italia
by Allen Weiner | July 22, 2009 | Comments Off
During Yahoo’s second quarter earnings call, CEO Carol Bartz talked of her company’s many current and planned projects aimed at providing operational stability, the tools to hit the ground running when the economy recovers and offering the market a sense of “wow” related to Yahoo’s products and services. Bartz pointed to the newly unveiled homepage [...]
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Category: Search Twitter Web 2.0 Yahoo blogging social media Tags: Carol Bartz, homepage, portals, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
The cognoscente’s meme of the day is whether or not harsh words on Twitter cut off Sasha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno’s” U.S. box office hopes at the knees. Time’s noted film critic Richard Corliss believes that a decline in opening day revenue to the following day was due in part to bad cyberword of mouth. That [...]
Category: Twitter Video Web 2.0 blogging citizen media film social media Tags: Bruno, Richard Corliss, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | June 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Google’s announcement that it plans to enter the ebook space is hardly a surprise given the search giant indicated such intentions as part of its class action lawsuit settlement with book publishers earlier this year. How Google manifests its interest in the ebook space and what parts of the value chain it assumes is where [...]
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Category: Newspapers Publishing blogging directories economy Tags: Adobe, Amazon, ebooks, Google, Ingram Digital, Libre Digital
by Allen Weiner | May 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
This is a story whose draft plot has all the makings of a thriller. Add up these story arcs and see what you come up with: *Amazon’s Kindle and Kindle 2 are gaining early signs of traction in the e-reader marketplace selling, by some estimates, around 300,000 units *The Kindle (a single function device) is [...]
Category: Mobile Newspapers Publishing blogging economy Tags: Amazon, e-readers, Kindle, magazines, Newspapers, Publishing
by Allen Weiner | April 30, 2009 | Comments Off
For those of us deeply entrenched in following the e-book world, we watch and marvel as Amazon’s purchase of Lexcycle, developer of Stanza, a the most popular iPhone e-book application, further distances the Seattle company from the competition. Question: is everyone else in this space either asleep at the switch or too busy worrying about [...]
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Category: Newspapers Publishing Web 2.0 blogging Tags: Amazon, book publishing, ebooks, ereaders, iPhone, Lexcycle, Microsoft, Publishing, Stanza
