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Are books — electronic or not — becoming "fringe media"?

By Kristopher Nelson in the Spring of 2010

Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that “books are becoming a fringe media.” I say: true for non-fiction, not so much for fiction.

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Evolution vs. Revolution: Overcoming Resistance to Change

By Kristopher Nelson in the Spring of 2009

Image via CrunchBase Speaking in the context of technology, Michael Crandell at GigaOM writes: Take yourself back for a moment to 1990, to the era of dueling operating systems: OS/2 and Windows. At the time, many people still used MS-DOS, … Continued

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