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UK’s Firsty Group Powers D2C Platform
In 2008 an independent publisher asked Firsty Group CEO Darin Brockman to write a business manual on website development. Only Brockman wasn’t yet CEO, because the Firsty Group didn’t exist. He was Managing Director of a web development company, and the Firsty Group was a seed in his subconscious... Read more
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Small data, big world
At FutureBook 2012 last week we heard how data was driving the publishing business forward, particularly consumer data that could help inform publishing decisions or pricing models around particular titles. Lonely Planet's Dominic Rowell spoke specifically about how that company had used customer activity on its popular website to help its publishing plans... Read more
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Publishing Personalities Advise on Designing the Bookshop of the Future
What makes a good bookshop? Should second-hand be in the mix too? Is a café important? How do you incorporate digital? Foyles’ clarion call at the Bookseller’s FutureBook conference in London last week seeks to answer some of these questions... Read more
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Future shocks: Mega-mergers, B2C, tablets and the next 12 months
“It’s becoming harder to define what ‘publishing’ really is. One speaker at Futurebook 2012 commented that publishers have less in common with each other than ever before, and she’s right. It’s becoming one great big sloppy soup of a business in which boundaries and, indeed, rules disappear... Read more
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What Do You Want to Improve in 2013?
Over at the Huffington Post, they listed nine things that might keep legacy publishers awake in 2013... Read more
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Top 12 FutureBook blogs from 2012
Had a look at the analytics for 2012 and thought a top 12 most-read blogs list might be useful.
Here they are:
25 ways to generate better online book sales... Read more
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Ether for Authors: Keeping Watch Over Our Schlock
In a post titled with baleful accuracy Schlock, Bjarnason — an Icelander based in London — looks hard at an aspect of digitally enabled content abundance that many of us routinely duck... Read more
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