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The biggest threat to local bookstores? Crazy booksellers and their fanboys
Last week, Amazon tried to train consumers to openly treat local retail stores as showrooms for Amazon merchandise. It was a ballsy but ethically shaky move; I believe customers who participated helped Amazon steal resources and sales from competitors for … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, booksellers, bookstores, consumers, corporations, ebooks, little guy, local, publishers, rants, shopping, slate, tirades, values
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We’re doing just fine, says Kobo to its Borders customers
If you own a Kobo, don’t worry about what’s going to happen to your ebooks, Kobo announced yesterday in a blog post. Kobo handles all ebook sales for Borders, not the other way around, so no matter what happens to … Continue reading
Posted in business, ebooks, Kobo, news
Tagged bankruptcy, booksellers, borders, ereaders, kobo, news, service announcements, u.s., updates
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Writers, readers, publishers, and the desire to know everything at once
I like infoporn. I love to pore over traffic charts for websites, or look at survey numbers from opinion polls, or sit back and marvel at a really good graph, which is infoporn’s centerfold. One area where the data-crunching promise … Continue reading
Posted in authors, business, commentary, DIY, publishing, self publishing
Tagged analytics, booksellers, business data, charts, crunching, data, digital publishing, disruptive, DIY, fanbases, fans, future, indie publishing, inforporn, publishing, readers, sales data, sales ranks, self publishing, social networking, social networks, transparency, trends
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Can you use Twitter to sell books?
Everyone who writes or publishes wants to know how to use Twitter as a promotional tool to drive sales, and to that end the British book reading website Lovereading–sort of the ugly UK cousin to Goodreads, only with a smaller … Continue reading
Posted in books, commentary, online, publishing, self publishing
Tagged books, booksellers, buzz, demographics, marketing, publicity, publishing, studies, surveys, twitter, users
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Here’s how a local bookseller tried to get my future business
In my recent counter-tirade against the emotional outbursts that booksellers are frequently guilty of when they should be discussing retail strategies, I mentioned that the last time I contacted a local bookstore to offer feedback on what I want as … Continue reading →