Have we got a show for you!
Here is the lineup for this year’s Making Information Pay session on “Shifting Sales Channels”, to take place at McGraw-Hill on May 7. The first half of the show is about “the state of the market.” The second half is about “what publishers are doing about it.” We’ll start off with a report on the […]
London Book Fair 2009; pretty personal observations
I love the London Book Fair. It is my favorite of the three book fairs I visit every year (BEA and Frankfurt being the other two) and I have even more fun there than at Tools of Change. Book Fairs, for me, are about seeing publishing people from all over the world, catching up with […]
Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 2
Michael Tamblyn of Booknet Canada made a series of provocative proposals for publishing, some of which he and his organization are involved in. I commented on 5 of them in a prior post; today I want to explore the one nearest to my personal interest: Michael’s suggestion that an intelligent data-connected electronic catalog would enable […]
Getting to vertical: two disparate examples
Two examples of the shift from horizontal media to vertical have caught my attention in the last week, although both of them have been around for a while. Monday’s “Online Media Daily” has a story about AOL hiring laid-off journalists for its new(ish) cluster of vertical channels. There are 70 such vertical channels already launched, […]