The sales-and-returns convention by which most books are sold by most publishers to their retail and wholesale accounts is too often described as "consignment". It actually isn't. Actual consignment terms would give us a quite different supply chain, … [Continue reading]
Digital marketing and coping with Amazon are the two big challenges for publishers as we begin 2017
I am getting ready to attend my first Digital Book World as a "civilian" (having programmed and moderated the first seven), Thinking about DBW entails recognizing how different the book publishing world today is from what I expected three or six … [Continue reading]
Conferences are thermometers recording the level of fear about publishing changes
In the latest sign that the need for information about digital change in publishing has undergone a sea change in the past few years, it was announced today that Nielsen will not stage an independent conference in London this April, but will instead … [Continue reading]
Newspaper publishers face very different and much more immediate threats than book publishers
The business news has been very painful for newspapers lately. A piece we saw a couple of days ago says both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are going to cut back sharply on their arts coverage. The advertising simply isn't there to … [Continue reading]
What the Riggio interview in the New Yorker tells us
The New Yorker did a very provocative story dated October 21 about Barnes & Noble that included a great deal of information gained from a phone interview by writer David Sax with B&N significant shareholder and chairman Leonard Riggio. … [Continue reading]
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