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Amazon.com seems to be all over the news in 2009. In January we learned that the company posted a profit in the final quarter of last year, despite the severe economic downturn. Then in February, Amazon released the second-generation of its heralded e-reading device, Kindle, whose text-to-speech feature prompted a swift and bitter response from [...]
This is the third and final installment in a multi-part series reflecting on how the publishing industry might connect better with readers. You can read part I, on The Da Vinci Code, by clicking here. Part II, on Oprah, is available here. III. What can the publishing industry learn from Netflix? In the realm of [...]
I’d been planning on posting installment three of my “What the Publishing Industry Can Learn” series, on Netflix. I’ve decided to postpone it until later in the week, however, given the thoughtful responses over on Conversational Reading and The Reading Experience to installment one, on The Da Vinci Code. I argued that the publishing industry [...]
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