Comments on: Current Reading Interests http://tomparish.com/current-reading-interests Tom Parish - Social Business and Social Content Strategies and Production Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Tom http://tomparish.com/current-reading-interests/comment-page-1#comment-206 Tom Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:02:37 +0000 http://tomparish.com/?p=827#comment-206 Will do! Will do!

]]> By: Tom http://tomparish.com/current-reading-interests/comment-page-1#comment-205 Tom Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:02:18 +0000 http://tomparish.com/?p=827#comment-205 Thank you Vinnie for taking the time to personally respond to my blog post. It's rather delightful to have an author respond and It's good to see you walk the talk with regards to the technology. I realize B&N and other retail only sell 5% of books like yours but I think I was 'hopeful' that in Boulder I'd find a copy quick. I just had a hankering to get started on your book. I am real curious about the internal process for Kindle and iPad. Sounds like it's frustrating for you as an author in many ways. You've been me a lot of new insights too from your comments. Yea ... I suspected publishers are still pretty focused on traditional channels. Oh well ... hey we're both just part of this large transition going on right now for the new economy. I think it's always been like that for me since I was involved with an AI spinoff out of MIT in the 80's. Vinnie would you be interested in having me do a video interview of you for www.EnterpriseLeadership.org about your book and related topics? I would be honored. Thank you Vinnie for taking the time to personally respond to my blog post. It’s rather delightful to have an author respond and It’s good to see you walk the talk with regards to the technology. I realize B&N and other retail only sell 5% of books like yours but I think I was ‘hopeful’ that in Boulder I’d find a copy quick. I just had a hankering to get started on your book. I am real curious about the internal process for Kindle and iPad. Sounds like it’s frustrating for you as an author in many ways. You’ve been me a lot of new insights too from your comments. Yea … I suspected publishers are still pretty focused on traditional channels. Oh well … hey we’re both just part of this large transition going on right now for the new economy. I think it’s always been like that for me since I was involved with an AI spinoff out of MIT in the 80′s.

Vinnie would you be interested in having me do a video interview of you for http://www.EnterpriseLeadership.org about your book and related topics? I would be honored.

]]> By: vinnie mirchandani http://tomparish.com/current-reading-interests/comment-page-1#comment-204 vinnie mirchandani Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:46:32 +0000 http://tomparish.com/?p=827#comment-204 and once you finish reading the book, please take part in the book's "wow" candidate contest http://florence20.typepad.com/renaissance/2010/06/the-new-polymath-wow-candidate-contest.html you could win more books from the Wiley catalog- and maybe we can convince them to deliver them in ebook format :) hopefully yon can nominate an E2.0 savvy person or company like Avon or Starbucks in the book...thanks and once you finish reading the book, please take part in the book’s “wow” candidate contest

http://florence20.typepad.com/renaissance/2010/06/the-new-polymath-wow-candidate-contest.html

you could win more books from the Wiley catalog- and maybe we can convince them to deliver them in ebook format :)

hopefully yon can nominate an E2.0 savvy person or company like Avon or Starbucks in the book…thanks

]]> By: vinnie mirchandani http://tomparish.com/current-reading-interests/comment-page-1#comment-203 vinnie mirchandani Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:31:48 +0000 http://tomparish.com/?p=827#comment-203 Thanks, as an author it is heartening - and bothersome - the effort you had to go through to get the book. First off, the Kindle version came out last Thursday. The iPad,ibookstore version will be available in a few days. Like you I would have thought the ebook versions would have come out before the hardback. Or that amazon and B&N.com would have allowed preorders of the digital version especially for a tech focused book. As far as B&N not having it locally. the reality is less than 5% of books like mine get bought in a retail stores - and those in tech heavy markets like Silicon Valley. 80% of biz books like mine are bought in bulk by case studies in the book (as you will see many profiles of innovators) and for speaking engagements. They order in chunks of 10, 50, 200. Then come e-outlets like amazon which make up likely 15% of the volume (and over time more of the total volume). That has been a revelation to me through this process. While we all want the social customer to become more prominent, the traditional channels are actually still dominant. Worse, they don't get reflected in amazon rankings. of course, my publisher loves the revenue from the traditional channels - social customer, who's that? :) Thanks, as an author it is heartening – and bothersome – the effort you had to go through to get the book. First off, the Kindle version came out last Thursday. The iPad,ibookstore version will be available in a few days. Like you I would have thought the ebook versions would have come out before the hardback. Or that amazon and B&N.com would have allowed preorders of the digital version especially for a tech focused book.

As far as B&N not having it locally. the reality is less than 5% of books like mine get bought in a retail stores – and those in tech heavy markets like Silicon Valley. 80% of biz books like mine are bought in bulk by case studies in the book (as you will see many profiles of innovators) and for speaking engagements. They order in chunks of 10, 50, 200. Then come e-outlets like amazon which make up likely 15% of the volume (and over time more of the total volume).

That has been a revelation to me through this process. While we all want the social customer to become more prominent, the traditional channels are actually still dominant. Worse, they don’t get reflected in amazon rankings. of course, my publisher loves the revenue from the traditional channels – social customer, who’s that? :)

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