Show Notes: Kindle and Google and Nook, oh my!
The study found, perhaps not so surprisingly, that there is a direct correlation between search and sales.
Bishop said that a whitepaper based on the study is forthcoming, and that those interested in obtaining it should send an email to thinkdbw@google.com.
•If Google’s search data indicates a rising tide (more interest in books), then Amazon is further poising itself to capitalize. In a talk on Tuesday morning, Jon Fine, Amazon’s director of Author and Publisher Relationships, expanded on this theme, presenting “some of the Kool-Aid I buy into” that Amazon is committed to the mantra of “more books, to more people, in more ways” and that “At the end of the day, it’s not print vs. digital. It’s books vs. everything else. Movies games, browsing the web.”