In fact, many indies have used free
books as a competitive advantage, funneling readers to their email lists.
Not exact matches
She has served
as an editor and collaborator on several
books, including The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking and The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the New
Competitive Advantage.
But all this is assuming (A) ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply of
books (B)
as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current
competitive advantage of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for ebooks, or any content, in five years.
There huge selection of
books is used
as leverage by larger corporations that want a
competitive advantage.
The Publisher Defendants also feared that other
competitive advantages they held
as a result of years of investments in their print
book businesses would erode and, eventually, become irrelevant,
as e-
book sales continued to grow.
We should not reflexively assume that universal
book lending must continue
as a core library service — print
books made available through a distributed physical infrastructure built upon a library's
competitive advantage.