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notyou · 04-29-2010, 03:50 PM

Surprised nobody has posted this here. Michael Tamblyn (Kobo's EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising) presented a 40-minute talk on the eBook industry at BookNet Canada’s Technology Forum 2010.

I'm sure a lot of it is old hat (or common sense) to readers on these forums (and yes, I see that some of you were actually at this talk), but he's an excellent presenter:

http://blog.kobobooks.com/2010/04/20/12-months-of-learnings-about-ebooks-in-40-minutes/

If you just want to peruse the slides, they're here:

http://blog.kobobooks.com/2010/04/28...share-edition/

I found the analysis of consumer reading/buying habits fascinating (and true), and the insight on pricing models was especially enlightening (and again it only reinforced the common-sense thinking that ebooks should be some amount cheaper than their paper equivalents.)

04-29-2010, 03:50 PM	#1
notyou Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 1140 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle / Palm Pre / iPhone	12 Months of Learnings About eBooks in 40 Minutes Surprised nobody has posted this here. Michael Tamblyn (Kobo's EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising) presented a 40-minute talk on the eBook industry at BookNet Canada’s Technology Forum 2010. I'm sure a lot of it is old hat (or common sense) to readers on these forums (and yes, I see that some of you were actually at this talk), but he's an excellent presenter: http://blog.kobobooks.com/2010/04/20/12-months-of-learnings-about-ebooks-in-40-minutes/ If you just want to peruse the slides, they're here: http://blog.kobobooks.com/2010/04/28...share-edition/ I found the analysis of consumer reading/buying habits fascinating (and true), and the insight on pricing models was especially enlightening (and again it only reinforced the common-sense thinking that ebooks should be some amount cheaper than their paper equivalents.)