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Return of the Scroll
Scrolls, after a lengthy and venerable history, disappeared with the crumbling of the Roman empire, to be replaced in late antiquity by the paged, bound and covered book, or codex. Books were more...
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The e-book’s Endless Summer
Has the day of the e-book finally arrived. There are signs that the answer is a definitive yes. Though what the long term impact o the e-book will be is still not certain. The good news has come...
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Does Anyone Know How to Price an e-book?
What are the components of value in an e-book? How much of the price depends on format, how much on content? The debate about the best way to price an e-book seems to be endless. The digital format...
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Reimagining the e-book Experience
Over the last several years, e-books have experienced good growth relative to the overall market for books. However, their overall share of that market is still small despite the fact that e-books...
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e-Books: a New Way to Optimize for Print?
The Business Blook as Beta PublishingOne of the benefits of living in a digital world is that it gets easier to measure everything. For example, if we have an online store, we can measure the traffic...
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ebooks – Toward a Tipping Point?
The ebook continues on a roll. March 8-14 was national Read an e-Book week and by all accounts was well received. As if to underscore the continued success of the electronic reading format, the...
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Contemplating the Google-book
According to a report in the NY Times, Google is preparing to enter the e-book market and take on Amazon. The delivery platform is unclear, but it does not appear that Google is favoring any...
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After the Page
Since the development of written language, mankind has experimented with different reading “devices” and formats. Inscription on the walls of dwelling spaces or public buildings Engravings on clay...
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e-Book Alchemy – An Interview with Olive Technology’s Virginia Thomas
By almost any reckoning, e-books are a fast growing segment of the book publishing industry. Many self-published authors and traditional publishers who have been reluctant to publish in e-book format...
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Print Books – Can’t Live With ‘em, Can’t Live Without ‘em
Recently, I put my house on the market, and as part of the staging process, the realtor had my wife and I pack up and store about two thirds of our over 5,000 books. The idea is to reduce visual...
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