Death of a Sales Outlet

I was reading Eoin Purcell’s post on the problem bookshops are faced with as they lose more and more customers to online booksellers, both for print and digital books. Actually, he was passing on a point made by another blogger, Seth Godin (Is this all we do in blogs now – talk about other people’s blogs?), but it amounts…

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Disney Books Go Digital Big-Time

An interesting piece I found on Eoin Purcell’s blog. He’s been keeping a close eye on digital developments and posted this announcement from the New York Times recently: ‘In what it bills as an industry-defining moment — though rivals are sure to be skeptical about that — Disney Publishing plans to introduce a new subscription-based Web site. For $79.95…

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