Monthly Archives: May 2009

Patronage the New Business Model ?

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Laura Fillmore

A LinkedIn blogger asked: Is the book publishing business model so broken that we need patrons to subsidize our work? ( see http://is.gd/BNkV ) Patronage is one way to do it, but, as with advertising in books, if you follow … Continue reading →

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What Amazon’s New Foray into Publishing Means

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Laura Fillmore

Recently on LinkedIn, a publisher posed the question: What can we learn from Amazon’ s foray further into book publishing http://is.gd/Aawt and their attempt to allow bloggers to monetize their blogs by publishing them on Kindle http://is.gd/zOoF ? To which … Continue reading →

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