3 small links this morning to celebrate the release of Amazon Kindle Singles: Shorter books in electronic form, for a time pressed. Make no mistake, although it is some kind of repackaging / rebranding eBooks, LBS is quite a change can happen in the book industry. The following links will show you .
A "single" to Kindle is:
- a book of 5,000 to 30,000 words (about 15 to 90 pages)
- priced between $ 0.99 and $ 4.99 (usually between 8 and 14 is $)
- and focus on a single powerful idea, well documented, well argued and well illustrated
Amazon invented the book "single " , Olivier Ertzscheid
This is neither for the form (format ebook "short" already exists) nor for the price, but its resemblance to the music industry (where the "single" at $ 0.99 The Apple Store has saved the skin of the music industry) which will be "the" single "The vector of its dissemination strategy at the expense of the" album "and" permit, as the "singles" musical authorized him, a dizzying onslaught literally, a split almost infinite This may be a book that may be a book. "
You do not buy a library as a book , Jean-Michel Salaün
With" the arrival of the web and especially rising tablets significantly change the situation and the attitude of the player. On a Kindle or an iPad, you do not buy a book, putting together a library. " The revolution is to return the current design of the editorial value of a book (and assuming an elasticity of aggregate demand relative to book prices. In other words, to assume that a book, or rather a title, is another competitor in terms of its price, that books are more or less interchangeable "
The ogre Amazon with feet of clay , Hubert Guillaud
The Singles are" offensive also frighteningly structuring than Apple's iTunes for music. "Amazon has become the must-seller e-book by forming a catalog like no other "The market does not" take off so much that it will be locked, whether DRM formats or too specific. "
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