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Generation B - Cover Appeal - People Magazine Attracts Young and Old Readers Alike - NYTimes.com

Thu, 28 May 2009 09:24:31 -0700

From the page: "The difference between the top-selling People cover of 2008 (Angelina, Brad and their twins) and a bottom seller of 2008 (Madonna divorcing another husband) was 1.5 million newsstand copies and $6 million in revenue."

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Sat, 23 May 2009 12:19:48 -0700

From the page: "The Path to Green

No matter where you are on your journey to green, there's a defined path you'll need to follow in order to arrive at the desired benefits. Here are the steps Subway took to "green" its supply chain along with some helpful tips the company picked up along the way.

1. Scope your level of "green" strategy. From the start, Subway decided that sustainability should go beyond reducing its carbon footprint to ultimately contributing zero environmental impact. To achieve this, the company realized that it needed to start with re-thinking logistics and purchasing since the company sources and delivers all the components it sells. In the future, Subway will push further into supplier manufacturing footprints to reduce energy consumption and waste on the components that make up its end products."

For Books Available On Kindle, Sales Are Now Tracking At 35 Percent Of Print Sales

Wed, 20 May 2009 12:45:56 -0700

From the page: "The 35 percent refers to the number of titles or units sold, not revenues, and is indeed additive. So let�s take the example above again. If 10,000 copies of a book are sold in physical form, and another 3,500 in digital form that is a total of 13,500 copies sold. The Kindle portion selling at 35 percent the rate of physical titles, but represents 26 percent of the total. (Showing it as a percentage of print books rather than as a percentage of the total sales makes for a better slide).

So let�s take this new number, 26 percent, and apply it to my assumptions above. At 80 percent of sales, instead of $280 million a quarter, it would be $208 million (26% of $800M). At 50 percent, it would be $130 million (26% of $500M).

But there is one more step. You also have to take into account the fact that Kindle books are cheaper than paper books, at least for new titles. A new title on the Kindle sells for $9.99, compared to $24.99 for a hardcover book. You have to factor in paperback books also, which tend to cost about $10 for more recent titles. So there is some discount. For the sake of argument, let�s say it averages to about a 50 percent discount. That would cut the revenue numbers down in half again to $104 million and $65 million, respectively. On an annualized basis, that comes to somewhere between $520 million and $260 million in Kindle book revenues (again, this does not include device revenues).

The numbers change based on what assumptions you plug in, but as a point of comparison, Citi analyst Mark Mahaney is estimating Kindle book sales of only $189 million this year, going to $612 million in 2010 (with total Kindle-related sales of $1.2 billion in 2010, if you add in device sales). At the very least, it looks like Amazon is well on track to meet Mahaney�s estimates, and may be ahead of them already."

News Story from Book Business

Tue, 19 May 2009 19:32:11 -0700

Despite this decline in traditional book publishing, there was another extraordinary year of growth in the reported number of "On Demand" and short-run books produced in 2008. Bowker projects that 285,394 On Demand books were produced last year, a staggering 132% increase over last year's final total of 123,276 titles. This is the second consecutive year of triple-digit growth in the On Demand segment, which in 2008 was 462% above levels seen as recently as 2006.

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: How Susan Spread and What It Means

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:11:17 -0700

Jenkins on Susan Boyle

two hours traffic

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:16:36 -0700

Stuck for the Summer picked as the theme song for MTV Camp'd Out. Oh summer dock music. Take me to music camp.

Two Hours Traffic

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:13:01 -0700

Charlottetown rocking the rock.

"New Think for Old Publishers" - AOL Video

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:59:04 -0700

Video of the worst panel discussion ever. No Think for Old Publishers.

New Think? Not So Much | Booksquare

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:55:19 -0700

SXSW panel on book publishing

kanYe West : Blog : PHOTOGRAPHER: MARC PAEPS

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:46:52 -0700

Love the images and twist on reality.