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		<title>Random House Fears E-Book Price War on iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPad, Apple’s newest technological wonder, will be released on April 3rd, just a few short weeks from now, but one thing probably missing from its advertised digital bookstore, iBookstore, will be the books from the world’s sales leader in publishing, Random House. In the Financial Times article ‘Random House fears iPad price war’, Random [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of E-Book Publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Customers have a habit of demanding lower prices, especially when they believe a product’s price represents a huge profit for the company. The case in point here is e-books, just one of many digital products facing the e-pricing dilemma. In recent weeks, thanks to the soon-to-be-released Apple iPad, five of the six major publishers banded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Book Pricing in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the digital price wars is all about change. As each new technology develops and transitions into part of the mainstream culture, the way the average customer buys their goods is dramatically altered. And the price that customers pay must change right along with it. According to the recent article ‘Is the price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of the Digital Revolution</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it’s common knowledge that the music industry was forever altered when iTunes, with its over 125 million customers, came onto the scene and allowed music fans to download songs for only 99 cents. In the past few years, it was the publishing world that has been changed, with digital book eaders like the Kindle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Life Cycle of Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand how to best set prices, manager first must understand that all products go through four distinct periods in their life cycles: emerging, growth, mature, and decline. Emerging products have just been released to the public; perhaps they’re even in trial form and only available to select customers. During the next period of growth, [...]]]></description>
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