Chris Webb

Digital Books: Digital FAIL?

This week I had a lively conversation about Amazon’s recent Kindle mobile phone announcement with Wiley Author Reto Meier. I invited Reto to share his thoughts with readers on why he believes digital books have a very long way yet to go. The future of publishing may be digital, but costly Kindles and eBooks on iPhones [...]

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Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to be Available on Mobile Phones

Did you feel that? That was a tremor in the publishing world. There have been many of them over the past several months, but yesterday’s announcement from Amazon could be especially game changing in my opinion. Amazon announced plans to make its Kindle titles available for a variety of mobile phones. Earlier this year they announced [...]

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The Evolving Experience Expectation of Customers

Note: The following is a portion of a presentation given at the recent Wiley EMEA Sales Conference by Christine Dunn, Director of Marketing.  She was kind enough to allow me to share it here. I’m not going to spend time going through loads of statistics confirming that nearly every man, woman, and child at every [...]

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