by Joel Friedlander | Aug 3, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Last week I read an interesting post by Chris Brogan about Amazon’s continuing march toward distribution dominance. (Amazon and the Kindle Conspiracy) Chris knows what he’s talking about, and I learn a lot from his writing. (By the way, don’t miss...
by Joel Friedlander | May 18, 2010 | Marketing, Self-Publishing
Aggregators—people or companies who gather material into a whole for another purpose, or as representatives of all the parts of the whole—are in new prominence. Particularly with Apple’s iBookstore, a new retail location of incredible potential. But...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 5, 2010 | Book Design, Social Media
If you have the time, watch this short video: You may not have noticed it, but on Tuesday in London the CEO of Penguin Books, John Makinson, gave a presentation to the Financial Time’s Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference. As reported by paidContent:UK, he...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 30, 2010 | Marketing
In an article late Friday night, the New York Times reported that “Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement.” Originally reported by Venture Beat, Friday evening books from Macmillan publishers have simply disappeared from Amazon’s...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 28, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
I have to say that watching today’s launch by Apple of the new iPad was quite entertaining. I picked Gizmodo which had a team of four or five people live blogging from the hall and taking photos of the visuals Steve Jobs was using in his presentation. You really...