I had reason to learn recently that Ingram has 16 million individual titles loaded in their Lightning Source database ready to be delivered as a bound book to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. So every book coming into the world today is competing … [Continue reading]
Medium publishes a book and gets some big PR
The New York Times carried a story on the front page of its Friday Business section about a book. This book is a novel entitled (appropriately for this piece) "The Big Disruption" by Jessica Powell. Of course, it is about Silicon Valley, which … [Continue reading]
The departing CEO reminds us that Barnes and Noble is of interest and a source of concern for all publishers
When Barnes & Noble interrupted Holiday week day-dreaming to announce that recently elevated CEO Demos Parneros had been abruptly dismissed for a contract violation that also eliminated his severance, it not only ignited a minor industry of … [Continue reading]
Words-to-be-read are losing ground to words-to-be-heard, a new stage of digital content evolution
"Words-to-be-read" must now become a content category, along with still images, video, and audio. Audio includes "words-to-be-heard". We are in what must be the early stages of a reordering of primacy among these varieties of "content for delivery … [Continue reading]
The dominance of Amazon needs to be addressed but it is far more attributable to natural circumstances than it is anybody’s fault
As things evolve in an era of rapid change, it is human nature to assign credit or blame for any drastic alterations in circumstances. And so we have the book business, with its last remaining chain store behemoth, Barnes & Noble, in a period of … [Continue reading]
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