The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
January 16th, 2010
A fine blog post from Joe Esposito that I wish I’d written…a small excerpt: Empires, by definition, begin their decline at their peak. Today Amazon bestrides the publishing world like Caesar, and it may seem far-fetched to think of this company slipping from its dominant position. There is some doubt, however, that Amazon can continue…
January 5th, 2010
OK, I’m obsessed. I just checked and I’ve written over 30 blog entries in the last few years about Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, for what I consider empty, meaningless hype around the Kindle and eBooks generally. Where is Peter Finch’s Howard Beale when we need him: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take…
December 15th, 2009
The IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) has released its October sales figures and the records continue to be broken. As noted in an email to IDPF members: eBook sales statistics for October 2009 have been released from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) who collects these statistics in conjunction with the IDPF. Trade eBook sales…
November 10th, 2009
I subscribe to Amazon’s press release feed and was greeted this morning with the headline, “Kindle for PC’ Now Available — The Free Application for Reading Kindle Books Available on the PC Today for Readers Around the World.” So I went to the download page and received this message: I’d read last month when Amazon…
October 23rd, 2009
My colleague Mark Anderson calls the company “Amazin’” and I often think he’s calling it straight. The company yesterday announced its third-quarter results, and financially, they’re stupendous: Net sales increased 28% to $5.45 billion in the third quarter, compared with $4.26 billion in third quarter 2008. Net income increased 68% to $199 million in the…