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The Nook of Doom

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 4:18pm
The Barnes & Noble Nook

Barnes & Noble (BKS) held a slick press event earlier this week to announce its new Nook digital reader. William Lynch, president of online business, was justifiably pleased as he stood cradling the cute arrival.

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  • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

It’s the End of the Book World as We Know It

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 7:25am

Publishers have been battling Amazon (AMZN) over the price of e-books, only to get outflanked by Wal-Mart (WMT) last week on the bread-and-butter best-sellers. In an effort to boost traffic on Wal-Mart.com, the Bentonville, Ark., retailer is offering select hardcovers that are among the most anticipated of the season for $8.99. Who saw that coming?

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  • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

App It Up—I’ll Take It

Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 1:08pm

The astonishing thing about the transformation of print into digital distribution is not that it has taken so long to finally happen but that, once begun, it is evolving so rapidly. A year ago, digital readers were barely taken seriously. Today everyone from authors to readers assumes we will see a massive step forward in technology in the next few months.

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  • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

Why Big Books Still Matter

Posted Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 6:10pm

Dan Gross, my colleague at Newsweek and Slate, pinged me the other morning after he had read the reports that Sarah Palin’s new book—suddenly announced for next month—would not be available as an e-Single Page

  • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.

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