The technology-driven change we are headed for in the months and years to come is going to dwarf all the change we have seen in publishing throughout our entire careers until now. Yet the next round of changes we will experience are really preliminary, permitting us to maintain the basic forms of the book business as we have understood it, at least for a little while longer
Databases and Networks – The Core Competencies of 21st Century Publishing
What has defined us so far has been the configuration of our end product: the book. That has seemed to be quite enough definition
Publishing & Bookselling: From Now to 2005
There is no doubt that digital technology changes the way publishers and booksellers handle their most basic business processes, but it is likely that the most profound changes digital technology will create will be in the marketplace itself
Territorial Rights
The erosion of the English-language publishing “territory” controlled from London has been accelerating for about three decades. Whether or not this erosion is an inevitable consequence of the end of what once was the British Empire, it is, of course, disconcerting to the publishers who once controlled more than half of the global English market
Fixing Broken Meters and Gauges – New Business Indicators for Publishers
There is a fitting irony in the fact that a big publisher on neither side of the Atlantic published one of the biggest Anglo-American bestsellers of the 1990s, the book “Longitude” by Dava Sobel. The irony is that the true story of “Longitude”, in which James Harrison struggles for the better part of a century to persuade the powers-that-were that he has solved the problem of accurately computing longitude at sea, actually analogizes the real reasons that consumer book publishers don’t make money
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