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The big disruption opportunity in book publishing
By Vinnie Mirchandani on January 3, 2013
Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article in its series on the iEconomy confirms “A quarter of the respondents said they had made less […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon, apple, Barnes & Noble, e-book, New York Times, publish | 4 Responses

Borders Books In Trouble Due to eBooks
By Bob Warfield on January 2, 2011
There was a point when our family went to a Borders or other bookstore at least once a week and sometimes twice. We would invariably spend up to $100 a trip. No more, and it seems like others have curtailed their book-buying visits too. I just read that Borders has not been paying publishers in an […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Bookselling, Borders Books, e-book, publishing, SaaS | 1 Response

The New Polymath Wow Candidate Contest
By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 12, 2010
Abbie Lundberg, former editor-in-chief at CIO magazine in her review of my book, The New Polymath called it a “veritable firehose of innovation examples”. The book covers wide innovation ground across industries, countries and technologies. 150…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, google, kindle, online shopping, polymath, The New Polymath

No deal for the Deal Architect
By Vinnie Mirchandani on July 3, 2010
I felt like screaming like the man in the movie Godfather who wakes up to find the head of his horse, Khartoum in bed. I opened a package and all it had was a scalp – the top of a package I had sent a week ago with copies of my new book. On it wa…
Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, book pricing, polymath, The New Polymath