17/09/08

Apt’s links for September 16th

• Mark Porter » Blog Archive » wsj.com – The Guardian’s Art Director (Digital?) on the new WSJ
• Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? — New York Magazine – “But at least with two major chains, you can play one against the other. Even in its weakened state, Borders can still boost a book into best-seller contention. If something is selling well at Borders, a publisher can pressure an increasingly stingy Barnes & Noble to reorder. If Barnes & Noble absorbed Borders? business, it would control 30 percent of the market?versus 10 percent for all the independents combined, with big-box retailers and Amazon controlling most of the rest.” Don’t you also find it surprising when an article contains quite so much of one’s thinking, without saying anything that new?

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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