Day before yesterday (Tuesday), the University of Michigan Press announced that it was no longer doing press runs of scholarly monographs. Henceforth, says the announcement, 50 of the 60 monographs published annually will be done “only as digital editions.” What a retro way to position a progressive decision! Publishing with no offset press run (or […]
Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 1
Michael Tamblyn, the smart and dynamic leader of Booknet Canada who has performed minor miracles with the Canadian supply chain, gave a talk at his company’s tech forum a fortnight ago that has gotten a lot of deserved attention. It’s 30 minutes long, but it flies by and the presentation is great fun: very much […]
A slightly different take on the Google settlement
I have read and listened to a lot of dialogue about the Google settlement. I’m not a lawyer and I’m not a librarian or archivist and I’m not a scholar who would be interested in those “non-consumptive uses” I didn’t know about before this all happened. To the extent that I had a horse in […]
Talking to the agents, and introducing Filedby
I was flattered to be asked to speak to the AAR last night as part of a very distinguished group. My fellow panelists were John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan; Morgan Entrekin, the CEO of Atlantic Monthly Press; the agent Larry Kirshbaum, who was CEO of TimeWarner’s book division (now Hachette Book Group); and Susan Katz, the […]
A few thoughts, some near heretical, about DRM
I got a call today from Laura Sydell of NPR in San Francisco to have a conversation about DRM. I found myself telling the story this way. From the beginning, there were multiple ebook formats, the leading ones being Adobe, Palm, and Microsoft Dot Lit for a time, with Mobi originally intended to be the […]
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