29/10/08

Apt’s links for October 28th

• The Google Book Search Deal: Winners and Losers | Medialoper - “The Losers: Amazon: Amazon?s 190,000 Kindle titles look puny compared to the millions of books Google now has access to. Granted many of those Kindle titles make up the big head of consumer demand, as opposed to the long tail. Still, Google now has the ability to monetize millions of books Amazon can?t, if for no other reason because they?re out of print. What?s more, under the new agreement Google has the right to sell printed copies of those books via print on demand. And I have a sneaking suspicion that Google still has a few more surprises in store for us. Android may turn out to be more than just a mobile phone platform.”
• B&N Launches Social Networking Site - 10/27/2008 8:17:00 AM - Publishers Weekly - “Barnes & Noble has introduced its answer to Shelfari, Goodreads and other social networking sites for books… Much like other book social networking sites, My B&N has features that let users showcase the books they?ve read and what they?re currently reading (the site also lets them feature music and movies). The site reminds users of their recent purchases so they can add them to their library. Users can create lists that they can e-mail to friends and family, and share on Facebook, Digg and other outlets. An ?EssentiaLists? feature allows them to create up to 100 customized lists on any topic or theme.” It’s going to get nasty out there in the social reading “space” - BookArmy is about to launch too.

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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