04 Aug
Posted by: Martin Edic in: 24PageBooks.com, Business models, Rants, eBooks
I have a Google news feed set up for e-books so I can keep up with the evolving e-book story. Recently there have been a number of interviews with CEOs of major publishing houses in which they dismiss e-books and claim that print will be around for a long time. This makes me wonder what [...]
20 Jul
Posted by: Martin Edic in: 24PageBooks.com, Apple (aapl), Business models, My Book Start-up, Product Development, eBooks
Yesterday Amazon announced that for every 100 hardcover books sold they sold 143 Kindle versions of the same titles. This is the tipping point for the publishing industry and they are not going to like it. Just as iPod/iTunes killed the CD business (and record stores), eBooks are the end of dead tree print books [...]