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Mondadori, Ultima Books and the ebook growth problem
Now I really have to say something about a matter which, at least among ebook professionals and enthusiasts in Italy, is causing a bit of a stir. Let’s start with the old news, as journalists used to...
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Dear Sofri, is it really the end of the book? Not on your life!
I’ll keep this short. All the fascinating analyses on which Luca Sofri bases his statement on the End of books (already cautiously downsized by Massimo Mantellini’s comments) have a serious defect:...
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What if, since Mondadori no longer allows us to sell ebooks published by all the brands of its group (all rigorously DRM-ed, naturally), we make Ultima Books into an ebook bookstore that sells only the...
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OK, I’m gonna be a publisher
With my usual disregard for the ridiculous, I’m getting ready to take that long-resisted step I’ve been putting off for years now: while Simplicissimus Book Farm strives, and indeed succeeds, in...
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Fausto Lupetti on the publishing industry: “This is no Economy”
[With this article I’d like to start a weekly reflection, every Tuesday, in touch with the publishers. Anyone with ideas, comments, criticism or requests to make can do so by sending me an email at...
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Talking about a scalable business: here are the numbers (our numbers)
Everywhere I look, I keep reading sophisticated analysis on the fact that the ebook, my friend, won’t continue to grow at all like it used to. Then I discover that all this outstanding analysis is...
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Should we launch a Book World Constituent Assembly? (Why Mario is right.)
Mario Guaraldi We’ve argued and made up at least a thousand times and we’ll probably keep at it for another thousand: he’s the only outstanding Grand Old Man of the Italian publishing industry who...
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Here’s the market by me. This is something that doesn’t exist yet on the web...
(photo credits Burrard-Lucas Photography) Save lots of money in courses and 3.0 conferences. Just go ahead and read this piece, which I wrote in July 2002 (some thirteen years ago), explaining the...
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Here’s how the book can be saved
Definitions Book is used here in the sense of book-experience. For a broader definition, see the one given by Kevin Kelly and adopted by the Slow Reading Manifesto[ here]. In this sense the book we’re...
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About the book, the dominant role of fate in its fortune, about the...
[I report, fixing it here, my outpouring inspired by this post by Zio Jo on Facebook, as there Zuckerberg wilfully continue to swallow everything, to devour everything and to take everything to the...
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