For the most part, book publishing is a business that requires looking well into the future. Once books are commissioned, they take months, if not years, to be completed editorially before they can even be introduced into a lengthy production and … [Continue reading]
Consumer Publishing Today: A Model Under Threat?
From the conversation at various recent conferences and from the data produced in this survey, it is pretty clear how consumer publishers today view their world and how it is changing. There does not seem to be a great divergence of viewpoint among … [Continue reading]
Toward a More Fragmented Future – Publishing’s Era of Consolidation Nears an End
A few years ago, a publishing sales executive of our acquaintance made this observation. "If you ask the publishers what their biggest concern is about the current marketplace, they all say 'consolidation of the retail base.' And if you ask the big … [Continue reading]
A Vision of Publishing’s Future
This is how it will be in the long run. And no commercial force on earth can change it. Every "work" (books and more) will be made available in virtually any form somebody could want: printed and bound in a book, printed but not bound, suitable … [Continue reading]
Crossing the Chasm – Getting from the Physical Here to the Digital There
Times are getting tougher and tougher for established publishers doing things in established ways This is structural. Change is making doing what they've always done a lot harder to do. There is suddenly a much wider range of book choices … [Continue reading]
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