Two announcements made in the last two weeks caught our attention. One was Simon & Schuster's deal with Author Solutions, creating a new Archway Editions publishing imprint. This was the third such major deal with a publisher for ASI, … [Continue reading]
Does Pew study prove ebooks in libraries are safe for publishers?
I haven't seen this written elsewhere, but the latest Pew ebook study seems to me to confirm that the publishers are doing the right thing for sales by constricting the availability of many of the most attractive books from library shelves. That … [Continue reading]
Everybody in Hollywood Needs an eBook Strategy
As a result of spending my college days at UCLA, I had a handful of contacts in the Hollywood community when I came back East to live in 1969. When I started becoming familiar with New York publishing in the 1970s, I found myself, on occasion, … [Continue reading]
Amazon’s growth and its lengthening shadow
The DoJ lawsuit and settlement, Amazon's next giant step of growth in sales, the Business Week article on Amazon pushing publishers to allow them to print slow-movers on demand, and then this morning's New York Times story about a book driven down … [Continue reading]
By one benchmark at least, we are probably halfway through the (r)evolution
A couple of major (Big Six) publishers have acknowledged that ebook revenues for them have passed 20% of their revenues. Of the 80% that remains print, I think it would be conservative to estimate that 20% of that is sold online. That's an additional … [Continue reading]
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