by Darryl Adams With Random House entering the Agency Price Model with the rest of the 5 big publishers (Hatchet, Harper Collins, Random House, McMillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster), there has been a lot of discussion about the practice. Firstly, to be clear, Agency Pricing is illegal in Australia. As a form of Price [...]
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Charleston Conference – Open Textbooks Model & Library Involvement
November 8th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
Jeff Shelstad, Founder and CEO of FlatWorld Knowledge spoke first. Jeff provided some stats on higher education: 19.1 million students in 2010 in college $850 avg spent on textbook so, it’s about a 10billion industry Cengage, Pearson, McGraw-Hill are the big 3 publishers along with many other small ones Problem is that the industry has outworn [...]
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The Kindle Store still has the best prices in the post agency market
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, surveys & polls
The developer behind Inkmesh apparently had a break in his day job. He just ran another ebook price survey similar to the one he ran back in November 2009. FYI: Inkmesh is an ebook search engine. It’s the best way to find out which ebookstore has a given title, and more importantly which store has [...]
Pandigital Novel now in stock at BBB w\floor model
July 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware news
I heard reports over the weekend that Bed, Bath, and Beyond had the black Novel in stock. Naturally this piqued my curiosity, and I went to my local store Monday morning. Yes they did, and no they didn’t. My local BBB store did receive a Fedex shipment on Friday, but it wasn’t for the black [...]
Liquavista is courting telecoms
May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news, liquavista
+Plastic Electronics interviewed Guy Demuynck, CEO of Liquavista. Details are sparse, but they’re still interesting. Here are a couple excerpts: Guy Demuynck, CEO of Liquavista, explains: ‘We are in discussions with people from this area – telecoms and mobile providers. They are thinking about subscription models. ‘E-readers are offered as part of a package and [...]
Thinking About Pay: Is a New Model Needed?
May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
The current method by which book editors, designers, and illustrators, for example, get paid is hourly, by the page or illustration, or by the project. In other words, do the work and get a check.And as the economy contracts, and as the traditional publishing world contracts, an increasing number of people join the ranks of [...]
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