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• Length and spine width in a digital-first world

  817 readers I’m still working through this extremely long exchange between Nicholas Carr and Clay Shirky about containers and contents but one point keeps jumping out at me: We have got to get away from thinking every “book” has to be at least a couple of hundred pages long. The Carr/Shirky discussion pulls in the oft-used music analogy. And yes,

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  Why haven’t Android tablets taken off?

  1260 readers Android tablets have nowhere near the market share that Adroid phones have captured.  Why is this?  Well, John Gruber, in Daring Fireball, speculates as to the reason: My hypothesis has long been that Android has very little traction in and of itself. What has traction is the traditional pattern where customers go to their existing carrier’s

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  Ebooks at year-end 2010

  824 readersFrom a NY Times Article (by Julie Bosman via Austin American-Statesman) E-books now make up 9 to 10 percent of trade-book sales, a rate that grew hugely this year after accounting for less than half that percentage by the end of last year. Publishers are predicting that digital sales will be 50 percent higher or

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  One Showroom Too Far: Why Wal-Mart Shut Its Doors to Kindle.

  564 readers Last May, Target, one of America’s biggest retail chains, announced it would no longer carry Kindles. Today it’s the turn of an even larger chain – indeed, the country’s largest. Wal-Mart will no longer carry Kindles either, report Stephanie Clifford and Julie Bosman of the New York Times. Speculation focuses on the practice known as showrooming.

• Major Professional and Trade Publisher Puts Print and Digital Assets up for Sale

  335 readers PRESS RELEASE: Wiley to Divest Selected Publishing Assets: Strategic realignment of resources will address marketplace changes, accelerate Wiley’s digital transformation, and drive long-term growth Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa, JWb), today announced it has retained Allen & Company LLC to explore the sale of a number of consumer print and digital publishing assets in

• Nicholas Carr: 2012 will bring the appification of media

  1782 readersNieman Journalism Lab’s Editor’s Note: We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. To kick things off, it’s Nicholas Carr, the veteran technology writer, whose most recent book — The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains — was a finalist for the

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  Publishers Weekly collects ebook statistics

  2073 readersFrom an article entitled E-Books Rock in today’s Publishers Weekly.  More info, including charts, on the site: This year, for the first time in PW‘s 100+ years of annual features on bestsellers, the magazine collected statistics on e-book sales. We asked publishers (and only publishers that had print bestsellers with sales of more than 100,000 in

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  Ebook editing raises questions

  1675 readers That’s the thrust of an article in Forbes.  Picking up on a Wall Street Journal Books blog post by self-published author Nicholas Carr, the article raises some interesting questions: But as with other forays into the digital realm, electronic publishing’s benefits come with some drawbacks. Printed books traditionally serve as reliable historical records, but if authors

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  Apple Working on 7.85 Inch Version of the iPad… Already Tested in Labs!

  1417 readersWe’ve been hearing for far too long about this mystery new iPad Mini, a 7.85 inch version that’s supposed to rival the Amazon Kindle Fire, its future versions and the yet unreleased Google Nexus Tablet. The only problem I have with this project is the fact that I don’t think Apple will price it “cheap”,

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  Want a successful iPad app? Impress the reader, not yourself

  982 readersThat’s the title of an article in Folio, by Matt Kinsman. The subhead is: long downloads and rich media that serves no purpose are holding us back. As publishers we can thump our chest about Apple’s strong-arm tactics and the lack of a workable digital newsstand, but the fact is long downloads and an emphasis