Morning Coffee – 21 September 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- Cory Doctorow continues to beat the drum re Amazon’s audiobook and ebook monopolies.
- Mike Shatzkin parses James Daunt’s speech at the BISG meeting last week.
- Guy Gonzalez reflects on the rise and fall of the late Digital Book World conference.
- Amazon just opened a bookstore in Houston, Texas.
- Chris Meadows wants you to spend Talk Like a Pirate Day reading about IP piracy.
- If you want to shake up your social media presence, Hootsuite has a template you can use for the audit. (The link worked when I shared it)
Comments
Disgusting Dude September 21, 2020 um 3:04 pm
Heh, Shatzkin wants B&N to close the most valuable art of tbe company, its logistic infrastructure, and rely instrad on Ingram which would be really ironic since B&N almost bought Ingram in the 90’s but the deal was blocked because it would put too much share in B&N hands. With Baker&Taylor bowing out out, B&N going Ingram would give Ingram the same monopolistic power the feds blocked.
And then he complains Daunt said nothing about B&N.com which wholly depends on tbe same infrastructure he wants to ditch.
Not exactly consistent is he?