Motoko Rich was on the front page of Tuesday’s NY Times business section with a story headlined “Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web”. She documented growth in piracy at the front (a quote from David Young about increased vigilance from Hachette’s lawyers and from Wiley’s lawyer with stats about a 5-fold increase in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]