The Google settlement brings into bold relief what has been a quiet issue for book publishers, particularly the biggest ones. They are largely in the dark about what rights they own. It is not really hard to understand why they’re in this position and it isn’t really anybody’s “fault”, but it sure is a mess. […]
Times Book Review on advances, and related thoughts
The NY Times Book Review published a piece on advances online today to which I was first pointed by Twitter early this morning. I couldn’t tell whether author Michael Meyer was “for ’em or agin’ ’em”. On the one hand, he seemed to suggest that publishers are inclined to overpay, and he cites Public Affairs head […]
A technology that could unlock a door to the future
Michael Cairns blogged yesterday about a deal SharedBook has just made with ourenergypolicy.org to use an annotation technology SharedBook has. SharedBook is a client and I spent some time this morning getting updated by CEO Caroline Vanderlip about this new technology. This is wikipedia-type capability with a spin that publishers and authors will really like. […]
More on returns, thanks to Michael Cader
Michael Cader responded to my post on returns yesterday (Tuesday, 4/7) with some ruminations of his own. All of them were thoughtful and useful and triggered some additional thoughts from me. Here is Michael’s commentary with thoughts of my own interspersed. I will remain in italics throughout this post. I have posted Michael’s entire response […]
Epiphanies come and go
I was talking to one of the smart C-level people from a major house at a party last June at BEA in Los Angeles. He was very excited about what his company had accomplished. “We’ve set up a database and CMS so we can deliver a web page for every book a web page for […]
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