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The Perils of Selling eBooks
Content is king when it comes to eBooks but a bookshop’s content is more than just the books on its shelves. A bookshop’s content is its customers and its staff, its knowledge and expertise and its trust and loyalty with readers. These things should be fiercely protected not traded away. A partnership must be equal otherwise one side will exploit the other.
Crikey, eBook Prices! … Beware Predators
What is at stake is a competitive market which ultimately is good for authors, publishers, retailers and most importantly readers.
Local eBook Options Are the Key to the Future Viability of an Australian Book Industry
Local eBook options are the key to the future viability of our industry. Giving priority of content to multinationals like Amazon, Apple and Google sets off alarm bells. EBooks are a part of the future of bookselling and there should be a multiplicity of players, especially local ones like Booki.sh and ReadCloud, if we want to retain an Australian book industry.
eBooks- Is there a place for Independent Bookshops?
eBooks will need independent bookshops just as much as independent bookshops will need eBooks
Australian Digital Publishing Symposium
There still remain significant impediments to any Australian retailer wanting to get into the eBook market.
Article for Bookseller+Publisher Magazine on Wi5
The whole Wi5 conference has been one of the most valuable experiences I have ever had.
Continue Reading February 18, 2010 at 3:55 pm Leave a comment
Wi5 Day Three
In the mad scramble to digitize as much as possible the things that cannot be digitized will be with worth a higher premium.
Wi5 Day Two
With eBooks estimated to be worth 10% of the market, booksellers either need to capture their existing marketshare of this new market or replace the 10% that eBooks are taking over.
Continue Reading February 5, 2010 at 12:36 pm Leave a comment
Wi5 Day One
The passion everyone has for books, bookselling and the whole industry is intense and the whole atmosphere is completely infectious.
