Quote of the Day | 0314
information on reader engagement could help a publisher acquire titles more effectively and market them better. So the sale of the data surrounding books could represent a new revenue stream, opening up the possibility that books could be sold at breakeven or even at a loss, with data sales comprising all of an online retailer’s profit. And here we have one of the fundamental truths of publishing in the twenty-first century: economic value is migrating from content to the metadata that surrounds that content.
Joseph Esposito, ‘What We Got Wrong About Books’
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