Peter Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor, Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School, and Co-Director, Wharton Customer Analytics InitiativeIn the wake of Amazon’s disappointing Q4 results, the Kindle Fire has ignited a veritable firestor…
IPAD READING BY WIERTZ SÉBASTIEN FLICKR 520X245 PHOTOCommercial ebook publishing and distribution is a crowded space: Amazon, Apple, Google, Barnes and Noble and others each have stores and devices for digital books, which ha…
With Amazon landing some major authors for exclusive book publication deals, Barnes & Noble is attempting to strike back with an ultimatum for the online retailer.As pointed out by Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Brad Stone on Google+&nbs…
Goodreads, the social network for reading and reviewing books, had to make a change this month. It moved away from its main source of book data, the Amazon Product Advertising API, citing its “many restrictions.” It completed the transition to Ingram B…
The tech giant and book merchant is signing its own authors to get a leg up on Apple and Barnes & Noble. It just might crush New York’s publishing establishment in the process. ReutersIn the world of publishing, Amazon is Godzilla. It’s one of the …
I want to follow up with the Kindle highlights. I’ve done some digging at Amazon and in Kindle forums. The highlights are “popular” highlights and to be a “popular” highlight and therefore appear on Kindles that have the view other reader’s highlight…