Wiley announced a few months ago that they wanted to sell some of their most consumer-oriented lines of books (although, as Cader makes clear, what they announced they wanted to sell constituted only about 20% of the sales volume of the division that houses these titles.) The first sale under that initiative was announced this […]
Publishers better start using their scale to price better, and soon!
It was just about two years ago that I appeared on a panel at a meeting of agents with, among others, Macmillan CEO John Sargent and Sargent made the point that maintaining ebook pricing and margins was one of the critical challenges facing publishers. Ebook sales were still hovering around one percent of the business. […]
Vertical and horizontal count in the newspaper business too
For some reason, I had missed the Mark Bowden article in the May issue of Vanity Fair about Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher and chairman of The New York Times. It’s a painful article, really, describing a guy who seems to be intelligent, decent, and ethical, and who is trying mightily to save his family legacy […]