Frankfurt Book Fair’s digital survey, collected from more than 1000 industry professionals in more than 30 countries, provides some interesting predictions about the future of the book.
Textbooks Gear Up for Digitization
Myths About Online Marketing
More on the Google Book Search Widget
Tim’s post from earlier this week introduced you to the Google Book Search widget.
Google Does Widgets
Google has announced a new Google Book Search browsable widget (and some other tools) and in the same announcement they have announced partnerships with retailers that already are using the widget live on their sites—a diverse group of retailers like Books-A-Million, Blackwell Bookshop, The Book Depository in the UK, A1Books in India, Librería Norma in Colombia, Van Stockum in the Netherlands, and Livraria Cultura in Brazil. And Google has aspirations to add this functionality to even more booksellers in the coming weeks including Borders.com, Buy.com, and Powell’s Books.
Small Publishers Get Big Technology
Lonely Planet on Nokia
Social Networks and New Business Models
TiVo: The New Local Bookseller
Location, Location: Local Living Economies and Booksellers
Bricks and mortar booksellers have been pondering the ramifications of the Internet since e-commerce began. Low overhead costs and practically limitless inventory have allowed for deeper and deeper discounts from online retailers while their in-person counterparts either taking a substantial revenue hit or lose price-conscious customers.
But what happens when a community goes local?
