The debate about the Google settlement, like most of any consequence or intellectual interest (what the government should do about health care or energy, for example) actually engages a wider range of knowledge than most of us have. But we feel comfortable having an opinion about what we should do about health care or energy […]
Is piracy something the book business needs to fear?
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 […]