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The Content Industries

September 7, 2010

I had a very interesting conversation with a freelance journalist (Tim Phillips) from Europe on Friday morning.  The main topic of conversation was the use of long-term thinking (i.e., futurism) in the telecom industry, and the future of the industry.  The final question Tim asked me was where I thought the industry would be in ten [...]

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Top Six Reasons Why Amazon Should Ditch Their TV Idea

August 31, 2010

The news media is buzzing about Amazon’s discussions with a number of media conglomerates to establish a subscription television service (and include some movies as well) – likely to be similar to Netflix’s online streaming service.  I’m in general a big fan of Amazon, but I think this is a misguided adventure, so in today’s [...]

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Kindle Books Outpace Hardcovers

July 19, 2010
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An item is coming across the wires now that over the last month, Amazon sold 180 e-books for every 100 hardcover books.  More importantly (at least in my opinion), is the same trend holds true over the last three months, 143 to 100 – and total e-book sales tripled from the first half of 2009 [...]

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