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The Battle for a Digital Pricing Model that Works Part 3: The Dark Side of the Force & A New Hope

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July 8, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Rebekah Hunt The book industry has been slower to evolve than other industries. The big retail chains, who had undercut the already wobbly industry’s prices on paperback books back in the 1980s, are now seeing the same thing done to them by the burgeoning digital market and Amazon.com. Advancements in e-reader technology such as the […]

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The Battle for a Digital Pricing Model that Works Part 2: The Fall of the Old Republic

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July 1, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Rebekah Hunt The Economist reported, in August of 2006, that print journalism has been in decline since 1990. Jobs in the industry fell by 18% between 1990 and 2004, Knight-Ridder sold off its newspapers, and New York Times share prices had been cut in half within four years.The obvious explanation, and the one most […]

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The Battle For a Digital Pricing Model That Works. Part One: Pub Wars!

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June 25, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Rebekah Hunt In March of 2011, Jon Bon Jovi famously accused Steve Jobs of being “personally responsible for killing the music business,” in an interview with the London based Sunday Times. “Kids today,” the aging rocker said (probably after chasing some off his lawn), “have missed the whole experience of… taking your allowance money […]

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