What are some of the most important lessons you learned in building out Rainforest as a self-serve freemium product after building Rainforest as a more enterprise-focused product to start?
B&N is embedded in all the college bookstores and has solid pipelines there. I think right now their ebook focus is on developing their e-textbook rental program.
They've got an edge there that Amazon can't hit too hard.
Everyone likes being right + feeling important.
Everyone is lazy.
No one wants to be called out on it.
If you are forced to keep it <140 char then no one can fault you for being lazy with your replies and critiques. Of course people are going to jump in and offer their brilliant opinions. Think about the low-cost high they can get.
On that note, we cry out in rage when a for-profit does some money-grabbing evil, but we also get our feathers all ruffled when a company for social good wants to be for-profit.
If we don't want corporations to make money by being evil, shouldn't we want them to make money by being good?