The business news has been very painful for newspapers lately. A piece we saw a couple of days ago says both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are going to cut back sharply on their arts coverage. The advertising simply isn’t there to support it. And recently before that, we read a […]
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 to a price of zero on Amazon (presumably by an algorithm), combine to […]
The digital transition really IS harder for trade publishers than for other publishers
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