Sometimes something seems very obvious to me, but other people -- smart people I respect -- don't see it that way and it makes me wonder if I'm missing something. What I'm thinking about that way today is the future of "open territories" in the … [Continue reading]
Amazon’s news of hiring Kirshbaum is a helluva start for BEA
Amazon dropped a shoe last week when they announced their new mystery imprint, Thomas & Mercer Books, and started signing authors, including self-publishing evangelist, Joe Konrath. Last night they dropped the other shoe, which turned out to … [Continue reading]
Conceiving issues that will gestate in the next nine months; planning for 2012 Digital Book World
The fact that Publishers Launch Conferences will stage half-a-dozen or more events before our next big multi-day Digital Book World blowout next January doesn't change the DBW calendar. Now is the time of year when we have to start thinking about … [Continue reading]
Random House joining the (formerly) Agency 5, and what it might mean
Now the Big Six are all selling ebooks on the agency model. Random House has joined their five competitors. It is almost a year since Apple launched the iPad, opened the iBookstore, and delivered big publishers an opportunity to rewrite the rules … [Continue reading]
From some perspectives, we are tipping right now and publishers’ metrics will show it
Sometimes, and it would seem quite often these days, the future comes faster than you expected it. Followers of this blog, and of my speeches before there was a blog (this one's from 2001!), know I've long been expecting ebook reading to supplant … [Continue reading]
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