"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]
Lots of Spanish speakers in the United States, but not so much of a book market for Spanish books
Somebody somewhere reported last month that the United States is the home country to the second largest number of Spanish-speakers in the world, after Mexico. Since I am speaking in Madrid to Spanish publishers at the end of May, that seemed like … [Continue reading]
What we are seeing today is actually the second renaissance of indie bookselling, not the first
Publishing and digital change consultant Bill Rosenblatt -- always worth paying attention to -- pointed his contacts last week to a podcast from NPR celebrating the current renaissance of independent bookstores. The history reported as part of what … [Continue reading]
The written word is losing its power and will continue to
If there were a futures market in literacy, it would be dropping. It is a sad fact that the value of written words, in relation to spoken words and still and moving pictures, is sinking like a stone. Changes like this happen for structural … [Continue reading]
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