The trade book business seems daily to become ever more unprofitable for publishers; every day it is harder to get the sales books deserve and to avoid painful and costly levels of returns. It is now possible to use data to solve those problems, title by title and store by store, if there is the will to learn the way
Facing up to the Big Questions
For the most part, book publishing is a business that requires looking well into the future. Once books are commissioned, they take months, if not years, to be completed editorially before they can even be introduced into a lengthy production and marketing process, and then be launched into what a publisher usually hopes will be a lengthy period of sales. Up until very recently, readers’ interest in the subject matter of a book was a moving target for publishers: would it survive, or grow, between the time of commitment and the time of publication?
Toward a More Fragmented Future – Publishing’s Era of Consolidation Nears an End
…if you ask the big bookstore chains what is their biggest concern about the marketplace, they say ‘consolidation among the big publishers.’ This little informal survey accurately depicted the dominant trend across publishing of the last quarter of the 20th century
Consumer Publishing Today: A Model Under Threat?
Publishers want to be sure that whenever the market is ready for e-books, they have the rights to publish e-books for the titles they have already established in the print format
A Vision of Publishing’s Future
This is how it will be in the long run. And no commercial force on earth can change it.
Every “work” (books and more) will be made available in virtually any form somebody could want: printed and bound in a book, printed but not bound, suitable for reading on the computer screen or in any hand-held reader or personal digital assistant or, when appropriate, telephone screen
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