Geek Biz Report, week ending 6 June 2010
Lead Story: Borders gets it’s sh!t together, investors shrug: stock price goes up a whole 10¢
there is an extended editorial posted in the article above this one.
& Just quick links for the rest this week (I’m already posting late)
Publishing
► Yet another article on self-publishing, but this one is from the Wall Street Journal.
► I’ll note here that the WSJ has been publishing a whole series on The Future of the Book
Hardware
► Not really news: it pays to buy last year’s tech — in the midst of iPad post-launch-glow and the leaks and subsequent nerdgasm over the 4G iPhone it’s good to note that the iPhone 3G S is only $97 from Wal-Mart.
Yes, Wal-Mart. Early adopters and continual upgraders pwn the web coverage of these devices, but from this point forward, it is the Wal-Mart masses that will truly be the Apple user base. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!.
Editorial
► This is just too weird not to link to, though there is absolutely no factual basis to the claims. (I think) Apple Didn’t Beat Microsoft, Robbie Bach Did: Apple’s Secret 5th Column
related: Mac Daily News does they own takedown of the Enderle column.
I firmly believe that in a heads-up contest between conspiracy theory and Human Stupidity, stupidity and incompetence is always the most likely answer. Occam’s Razor.
RBGSX
Aggregate prices on the Rocket Bomber Geek Stock Index fell 37.57 points (-3.85%) to 937.36. This doesn’t reflect poorly on the industry, which is chugging along as well as can be expected, but is merely an expression of broader doubts about things like oil spills, the Euro, and the lingering recession.
Charted: 23-week RBGSX Aggregate Price
[past 23 weeks, starting from 12/31/09]
& the 25 stocks: CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA), Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE), Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), Viacom, Inc. (NYSE:VIA), Wiley John & Sons Inc. (NYSE:JW.A), The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE:MHP), Lagardere SCA (EPA:MMB), Pearson PLC (NYSE:PSO), Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Books-A-Million, Inc. (NASDAQ:BAMM), Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE:BGP), Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), Hastings Entertainment, Inc (NASDAQ:HAST), Indigo Books & Music Inc. (TSE:IDG), Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), Navarre Corporation (NASDAQ:NAVR), Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI), Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME), Nintendo Co., Ltd (OTC:NTDOY), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
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