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Reading: Not Just For Solitary Bookworms Anymore

CBC | Posted 04.27.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Online-Book-Clubs, Cbc, Social Media Reading, Books on Social Media, E-Books, Social Media Books, Social Reading, E-Books Canada, Book Clubs, E-Books Social Reading, Reading With Others, Canada Living News

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Ya ain't seen nothing yet!" -- Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer (1927) Those were the opening words spoken in the...

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How E-Books Are Ruining the Next Generation of Writers

Marko Sijan | Posted 10.08.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Book Publishing, Mammon, Apple, Jeff Bezos, Ewan Morrison, Writing, Charles-Augustin-Sainte-Beuve, Crowdsourcing, E-Books, Twilight, Creative Writing, Amazon, Yahoo, Canada Living News
Marko Sijan

Literary writing is a worthless profession. Few who write novels, stories and poems make a living from them. This has been true for millennia. Lately the Internet has regressed into a society of feudal manors lorded over by tech giants like Amazon, Apple and Yahoo, who sell e-books for 99 cents or give them away for free. Their "competitive pricing" is threatening traditional publishers and physical books with extinction.

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The E-commerce Tipping Point

Mitch Joel | Posted 06.03.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Mitch Joel, Pwc, Marketing Professional, Twist Image, Daily Deal Site, Six Pixels of Separation, Retail, Business, Retail Stores, Tablet, Amazon, Social Media, Startup, One Kings Lane, Retail Experience, Mediapost, Multichannel Model, Merchandising, Fab, Ecommerce, Mobile, Multichannel Experience, Online Retailer, Web Analytics, Online Community, Consumer, Smartphone, Tipping Point, Silicon Valley, Shopping Mall, Selling Online, Website Experience, Traditional Retailer, Ctrl Alt Del, Retailing, E-Books, E-Commerce, Canada Business News
Mitch Joel

Recently, a very senior marketing professional who works at one of the world's largest corporations was recounting a story of how they saw a postal truck outside of their corporate head offices in Silicon Valley, and every single parcel that was being offloaded from this truck was from Amazon. He thought to himself: "This is the what retail looks like in 2012."

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E-Readers Send Erotica Sales Soaring

CBC | Posted 03.29.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Nook, Erotica E-Books, E-Publishing, Cbc, Kindle, E-Books, Erotic Fiction E-Books, E-Readers, Kobo, Erotic Fiction, Erotica for E-Readers, Canada Business News

Sales have soared for erotic literature with the advent of e-readers such as Kobo and Kindle, with one company in British Columbia reapin...

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Kobo Bought

The Huffington Post Canada | Ron Nurwisah | Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada
Read More: Kobo Bought, Rakuten, Kobo Purchase, Kobo Sold, E-Books, E-Readers, Kobo, Amazon, Rakuten Buys Kobo, Canada News

Canadian e-book and e-reader company Kobo has been sold to Japan's Rakuten for $315-million. Kobo, a Toronto technology company which was a one-ti...

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