There was a lot of lore in our family but one of my favorite bits of it was my father's great pride at having hired the first two black office workers at Doubleday in the 1950s. This was particularly cheeky for the guy who was the only Jew in top … [Continue reading]
Epiphanies come and go
I was talking to one of the smart C-level people from a major house at a party last June at BEA in Los Angeles. He was very excited about what his company had accomplished. "We've set up a database and CMS so we can deliver a web page for every … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Third old publishing story: tracking POS, and the explosion of backlist sales in the 1970s
In an earlier post, I told the story of Ingram's introduction of the microfiche reader in the 1970s and what it did for backlist sales. There was another new technology introduced at the same time by the B. Dalton bookstore chain, based in … [Continue reading]
More on the Google settlement
OK, so what I thought I had figured out earlier isn't so simple. In a prior post, I "discovered" (for everybody) that it is likely that the biggest revenue opportunity in the pile of books being scanned by Google would be the republishing … [Continue reading]
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