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Ideas about the future of bookselling

February 7, 2013 by Admin 30 Comments

There is a vision of online bookselling, which I share, which is that it will become increasingly atomized. Books (and, ultimately, other content too) will be merchandised in unique ways across countless web sites curating and presenting content choices for their own communities and audiences. One early prototype of how this might work is the […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, B&N, Baker & Taylor, Bookateria, Bookish, Brian Murray, Codex, HarperCollins, Kobo, O'Reilly Media, Peter Hildick-Smith, Politico, Publishers Lunch, Random House, Tools of Change, Under Cover Books

Two new initiatives to ponder as we end the year

December 28, 2012 by Admin 1 Comment

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, following similar arrangements forged with romance publisher Harlequin and Christian publisher Thomas Nelson (now owned by […]

Filed Under: Authors, Direct response, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Archway Editions, Author Solutions, Bella Andre, Bookateria, Bookish, F+W Media, Ganxy, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Hay House, Hugh Howey, Impelsys, Indiebound, John Locke, Macmillan, Osprey, Politico, Politics & Prose, Publishers Lunch, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson, Tor Books, Zola

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