…the world-wide availability of the quality free material will create an audience large enough so that if 1 percent of that audience pays for the ‘premium’ services…the revenue from that 1 percent will support the free services, even drive a profit.
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How ‘Free’ Textbooks Change the Business
September 7th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Chris · Free · open source · publishing · publishing industry · textbook
Boston Confidential: Monkey Rock at All Asia
August 31st, 2009 1 Comment
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The Industry: Time for Publishers to Hop on the “Long Tail”
June 21st, 2009 No Comments
If you’ve read Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, you may already have an understanding of how Anderson’s concept of the “Tail”—the small number of unreached markets in media industries such as film, music and television—can help the publishing industry.
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