Category Archives: Books

What If Amazon Could Care Less About the Apple Tablet

By Kit | January 21, 2010

The last two days, Amazon has made a couple of announcements regarding the Kindle. The first is that they have raised the royalty that will be received by publishers to 70% and the second is that they will be making an SDK available. The spin on the street is that they are doing [...]

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Michael Ruhlman’s BLT from Scratch – Summertime Challenge and My Obsession with the Perfect Sandwich

By Kit | June 9, 2009

Food writer Michael Ruhlman has a post on his blog challenging his readers to create a BLT from scratch, photograph it and submit it. Creating a BLT from scratch in his mind means curing the pancetta, baking the bread, growing the lettuce and tomatoes and making the mayo from scratch. Despite the fact that I [...]

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The Academic eBook Reader

By Kit | August 26, 2008

Rumor has it that Amazon may be releasing their Kindle eBook reader in a modified format for the academic market. Having been employed by a number of text book publishers, my initial reaction was a gasp and shudder. Upon further reflection, this may just be the innovation that the text book market needs. [...]

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When Marketing isn’t Marketing

By Kit | July 2, 2008

Shortly after the writing about Eric Ripert and how leveraging personal brand is an emerging trend in what I would describe as Web 2.0 marketing, I encountered this video. It spoke to me because in my previous life as a publicist and editor for publishing companies, I was often the voice on the other [...]

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    This is the weblog of Kit Kemper. It is generally about marketing. Marketing in the sense that pretty much everything you do as a company and more often as a person these days devolves into marketing of some sort or another. It is also about tech in much the same way as it is about marketing, technology touches more of our lives every day and where people, marketing, and technology converge there are some pretty interesting things happening.