Is this where I came in? In the early 1990s, the computer manufacturers and Microsoft were doing everything they could to persuade businesses and consumers that they really, really, really needed CD-Rom drives. That Microsoft would benefit from them was very clear; the software they were selling was taking more and more diskettes to deliver […]
Long ago at the Los Angeles Times Book Review
Although the decline of newspaper book review sections is just a sub-set of the larger sadness of the overall demise of newspapers, I was struck by the recent report of the mighty Los Angeles Times Book Review being stripped down to practically nothing. I haven’t read it for years, but this news made me think about […]
Caroline Latham, an old publishing friend I’ll miss
I lost a very dear friend who was a unique figure in the publishing world two months ago when Caroline Latham died in Novato, California. I am pretty sure she was 68 or 69; her close friend Joan was sure she was 70. Even Caroline didn’t know for sure. I met Caroline in 1978 when […]
Can the chains provide us with better small bookstores?
There is considerable concern among the trade publishing establishment about the future of brick-and-mortar stores. As well there should be. Retail stores provide the most efficient promotion opportunities for books: putting them in front of people poised to buy. They give clear signals about sales appeal by positioning and piles of stock of varying sizes; […]
Copyright Clearance Center could become more important in the digital future
One of the findings of our StartWithXML project was that book publishers can expect the market for pieces of their content and databases of their content to grow, even while the market for books themselves may not. In the context of our XML research, that is part of the reason publishers need to tag their […]
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