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Somebody please tell me the path to survival for the illustrated book business

August 6, 2012 by Jess 26 Comments

My eye was caught at the end of last week by a story in The Bookseller that acknowledged that ebooks just haven’t worked for illustrated books. It appears that the publishers of illustrated books they spoke to for the piece think that situation is temporary. The Managing Director of Thames & Hudson, Jamie Camplin, is […]

Filed Under: eBooks, New Models, Vertical Tagged With: advanceImages, Aerbook Maker, Blio, Bowker, Codex, Dorling Kindersley, F+W Media, fotolibra, iPad, Jamie Camplin, John Duhigg, Kindle Fire, Osprey, Peter Hildick-Smith, Ron Martinez, Thames & Hudson, The Bookseller, Wiley

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February 22, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

When Joe Esposito first told me about blogs in about 2001 or so, there were very few. Michael Cader had PublishersLunch, but if Michael knew that it was an emailed blog, he didn’t tell me. And then blogs “happened”, as things do: gradually, then suddenly. And now I’m late to have one of my own. […]

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