Selling Strategy

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global-home
 
          Give something away free and if it is good enough, people will want more.  This is such an easy concept that we see all over the place.  A month free trial period of tv channels, free lipstick samples, free song downloads…this list could go on a long time.  When I came across this article talking [...]

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Welcome to the decade of technology…

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6988740.ece
          So here we are in 2010.  Technology seems to be the ‘it’ topic right now.  From tons of sources lately I have heard things like, don’t buy external hard drives, back up online, no more cds and dvds, everything needs to be digital, and of course, move over paper books, e-books are here. 
 
          This [...]

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The Kindles got some competition

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-07-22-ereader-network_N.htm?csp=34
          So I happen to work at T-Mobile currently.  In the past I have worked for Verizon, AT&T/Cingular, and Sprint.  I tend to know what’s what in the cellular world so this news caught my attention today.  Today AT&T announced that they will carry an electonical reading device next year.  Hmm, sounds like Kindle, which uses [...]

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Missing: George Orwell

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/amazoncom-plays-big-brother-with-a-famous-e-book/?apage=1
          Should we be surprised that publishers are changing their minds on their books being available for e-sale? I’m not.  If anything, this is only an omen of what is to come.
          It is a fairly well known fact that e-books tend to be cheaper than actual books.  This makes sense because there is not [...]

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Is the Kindle the future of books?

     So on http://calitreview.com/category/blog  I would this entry…
     Kindle Joins a Literary Ritual: Authors Can Autograph It: A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had waited [...]

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