While the AAP reports that US book sales are definitely down and my friends in major houses report a decline of 10% or more across the board, that's not what we're hearing from Canada and it's not what we hard from small and midsize publishers … [Continue reading]
More on returns, thanks to Michael Cader
Michael Cader responded to my post on returns yesterday (Tuesday, 4/7) with some ruminations of his own. All of them were thoughtful and useful and triggered some additional thoughts from me. Here is Michael's commentary with thoughts of my own … [Continue reading]
Ruminating about returns
The subject of eliminating returns seems to come up more and more frequently these days. Last week we were interviewing a major independent bookseller for our BISG "Shifting Sales Channels" project and they brought it up. In this case, they were … [Continue reading]
Riffing on Tamblyn’s “6 Things”, Part 2
Michael Tamblyn of Booknet Canada made a series of provocative proposals for publishing, some of which he and his organization are involved in. I commented on 5 of them in a prior post; today I want to explore the one nearest to my personal interest: … [Continue reading]
This is a post about nothing; it doesn’t count
This is a post about "no post today". Or maybe this is a Seinfeld post. Its about nothing. A particular number of years ago that my friend Lorraine Shanley of Market Partners could tell you and I can't -- but I would say about 15 -- she confided … [Continue reading]
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