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Using the whiteboard in our living room (yes, there is one)
we started to list everyone we were competing with. We ran out of space because the whiteboard wasn’t big
enough. At the broadest level we
consider ourselves to be providers of a cultural experience, and therefore we
are competing for mindshare of customers and joining us in the fray are
museums, exhibitions, arts and lecture venues, movies, concerts, etc, etc. At the narrowest level, we consider
ourselves simply booksellers, and therefore we are competing for sales of books
with everyone from WalMart and Target to the more than one million individuals
selling books on Amazon’s marketplace.
Even the taxpayer-funded San Francisco public library now sells books it
receives for free as donations.
a huge unmet need for people to find venues where they can meet and
talk with other people

Praveen Madan: Why All the Fuss About "Independent" Bookstores?

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Good independent bookstores facilitate discovery of new books and
provide a life-long means of education and learning for their customers.
independents represented 30-50%
of a new book’s sales in the first 3-6 months after it’s release
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- An independent bookseller’s
  ability to personally read the book, discern who would appreciate it, and
  promote it to their customers one at a time. In bookseller lingo, we call this handselling.
- business of
  building community
- the fight
  to save independent bookstores, is actually the fight to preserve the diversity
  and vitality of our culture, it’s about strengthening our local
  communities
- If you want to know more about what independent bookstores
  do, you should check out a great documentary called Paperback Dreams.
- Hand-selling books -- matching up books with a customer who will love them -- is one of the greatest highs. Readings are also right up there. There was incredible demand in the community. We would get between 40-100 people crammed into what was basically a corridor.
- you've got the ability, with Amazon, to get what you want when you want it, at the cheapest price
- Independent bookstores help you find books you love.

David Rothman: How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan

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My e-book wishes for 2010: Cheaper gizmos, better screens, more e-titles, DRM back-offs, ePub for the Kindle, TeleRead progress | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

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24 Dec 09

Social Search Degrades Productivity : Beyond Search

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most of the social network hype is the shock wave of the present economic crisis

23 Dec 09

BBC News - The media and the message

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The Guardian seems to have realised that in an always-on, hyper-connected world almost all of its news content is now a commodity offering; that very few of the "facts" it publishes are exclusive at all, and none are exclusive for long, that the desire for comment and columns and features by favourite writers is weaker than the desire to have something for free, and that the commercial model that sustained newspapers in the past is gone forever.
We may not be willing to pay for the news itself, but we are willing to pay for curation, integration and convenience.
because I value the convenience of having it immediately available on my phone
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- The relationship between me and the news content I read when I am using my laptop is different from the one mediated by my smartphone
- When everything is in flux, knowing how to avoid making your customers too unhappy might be the secret to success, and not just for newspapers and booksellers.

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010

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As social media becomes integrated into our experiences online, it will have an impact on verticals such as nonprofit, job training, education, and health care.
"The top 10 companies to work for are going to become learning companies. Instead of having 10% of time to philanthropic activities, they'll spend 10% of time on learning or teaching,"
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- "Companies who integrate social collaboration and conversation into health care find they have more knowledgeable employees and patients who can make smarter choices and improve the quality of their care."
- We will discuss power of ownership and only accept quality, relevant content.
- an online presence and an ongoing conversation with your constituents is a baseline requirement

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010

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content relevance and quality will become the key focus
people will gradually shift their trust from large aggregators like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and move to searching and finding content at specific locations and, eventually, creating and integrating their own content hub into the rest of their personal digital experience
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- It was easy to forget that enterprises and large institutions are the originators of some of social media's pillars: listservs, forums, intranets and collaboration tools.

10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009

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having smaller well-targeted niches can lead to much better returns than marketing to one large undifferentiated mass of users
Meaning and connection -- two key anchors of all things social media
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- People now deliberately seek meaningful connection, self-expression, and a relevant and receptive community.
- People will be looking to get tangible and relevant value out of their social experience; they'll be looking for meaning and for order. "Social media online is no different from social media offline,"
- connect around meaningful topics and have live and simultaneous conversations within parameters they themselves define, which will bring relevance back to their interaction with others
- people are at a loss when it comes to pulling their conversations together from various sources and assigning meaning to them. Companies that deliver beautifully designed, easy-to-use, searchable, flexible, aggregating platforms will become more important than any social media tool by itself
- People will create, join, and seek social networks that enable them to have meaningful and relevant experiences with each other. They will measure their return on investment (time spent, level of disclosure, etc.) in replies, comments, their ability to influence, and the value of their learning
- the Internet is confusing because it can be used to replicate almost any previous medium
- people will seek to bring order to the endless bits of information available to them. Video tagging, conversation archiving, taking cloud computing to the next stage, and making search more relevant are some of the new baseline requirements.