I just want to riff briefly on a challenge; I am still thinking about what might be a solution, or even an approach to a solution. Here's the challenge. We need some creative dealmaking between authors and publishers. The partnership is getting … [Continue reading]
Enhanced Ebooks, Part 3
This is the third and final post of a series which spells out a new ebook strategy for trade publishers, expressed in the form of a letter from the publisher to its authors. The first post — the beginning of the letter — expressed the publisher's … [Continue reading]
Shifting Sales Channels, and What Publishers Are Doing About Them
We (Ted Hill of THA Consulting and I) are working with BISG again this year on their Making Information Pay conference. Last year we did a project on "Experimentation and Innovation" where we used both an online survey and interviews to surface the … [Continue reading]
If you could fix something, what would you fix?
The question asked on an email list of digerati-types was: "On the trade side of the business, what are some of the unmet challenges, the unsolved conundrums, at the intersection of books & technology? If you could fix something, what would … [Continue reading]
Second old publishing story: the first great book supply chain tech disruption
Before the early 1970s, wholesalers to the trade were local and carried a relatively small number of titles. Their main job was to back up bestsellers and local booksellers went direct to the publishers for just about everything else. Baker & … [Continue reading]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- 113
- …
- 123
- Next Page »