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Bezos Tells Shareholders No Color Screen Soon

May 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

Amazon ceo Jeff Bezos told the audience at the company’s annual meeting that their strategy for competing with Apple is the company looks to surge past Kindle in devices on the market is to stay focused on “serious reading households.” That strategy is said to drive the excuse for not adding a kolor Kindle any […]

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Data Says Most eReader Owners Will Pay More

May 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

Do consumers mean it when they say “I’ll never more than $9.99 for an ebook”? “That’s only half bullshit,” Michael Norris, senior analyst for Simba Information, told a full room at BEA. More than a third of people said they’d never pay more than $9.99 for an ebook, though three-quarters of people said they would […]

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The Buzz Begins Here

May 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

Every year we struggle with how to cover, and evaluate, the books angling for attention that fairgoers haven’t read yet. This year’s experimental solution was to commission to critical assessments of some of the high-profile would-be buzz books from established reviewers. We’re pleased that so many well-known critics were happy to join us in this […]

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BEA Basics: No Exhibits until Tomorrow, But a Lot Happening Now

May 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

Old habits are hard to break. With BEA’s switch to a mid-week show and just two days of floor exhibits, a number of veteran fairgoers were confused to learn this morning that the show floor does not open until tomorrow. Sufficiently so that BEA pushed out an e-mail reminder on this point. Today is for […]

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As BEA Opens, CEOs Miss the Way Things Were

May 25, 2010
By Michael Cader

It could be the best of times but mostly it’s the worst of times, at least as viewed for the majority of this morning’s opening conference panel at BEA featuring a variety of executives from across the business: Moderator Jonathan Galassi from FSG, Esther Newberg at ICM, Bob Miller at Workman, author and Authors Guild […]

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Survey Says Indies Need to Discount Bestsellers, Broaden Selection to Expand Sales

May 24, 2010
By Michael Cader

Verso Digital presented ABA members with results a new online survey conducted in April targeted at consumer intelligence relevant to independent booksellers. (They surveyed 9,300 book buyers, with an estimated margin of error of 1.5 percent.) The focus was to follow up on a finding from Verso’s earlier survey that indie “mindshare” is a lot […]

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