Last week, Harlequin Enterprises became the first major publisher to take their entire front list to the eBook format.
Don't Miss Out on This Special Offer!
eMusic.com is an online music store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York, New York, and owned by Dimensional Associates, LLC. eMusic is considered the second largest online music store and has over 250,000 subscribers.
I think that the eMusic subscription model has succesfully proven that people are willing to pay money for digital music.
What Will They Think of Next?
An entrepreneurial company in Shanghai—Bookgg—is exploring a new advertisement-powered free book business model.
Rent a Book?
It was only a matter of time…’NetFlix-style’ subscriptions comes to the land of the printed page — BookSwim (Beta). I think we used to call this a library and for the most part it was free.
I've Always Thought an Apocalypse Would Be More...Inevitable
A recent article in “The Walrus,” Jon Evan’s Jon Evan’s Apocalypse Soon, draws the conclusion that “the oncoming digital meteor will hit today’s publishing industry hard, and its dinosaurs are going to die.”
Google and the Messiness of the Book
Try Out the Espresso Book Machine
RFID Media Tracking
Media Exports to Our Southern Neighbours Are Slowing
It appears the strengthening Canadian dollar and changes to the book industry are only some factors to blame in fewer Canadian books moving south of the border. But it’s not only books: exports in all media from Canada seem to have slowed.
Read the full Globe and Mail article.
