There's quite a bit of publishing about publishing going on in the next few weeks. British academic John B. Thompson has written a solid scholarly history of book publishing in the past quarter century or so called "Book Wars" that will publish … [Continue reading]
Remembering Jim Haynes, the man with more friends than anybody else
I met Jim Haynes at the first Frankfurt Book Fair I attended, in 1976. I would see him every year when I went back to Frankfurt and any other time I was in Paris, where Jim lived. I think I was one of his ten or fifteen thousand closest … [Continue reading]
Thoughts about what Covid and 2020 mean for book publishing
A team of independent publishing consultants with broad and deep experience in the industry have produced an excellent report on the effects of the past year's pandemic on the book publishing business called "COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and … [Continue reading]
Introducing ClimateChangeResources.org, organizing and contextualizing the challenge we all face
It was in a blog post in February of 2017 that I first wrote about Climate Change Resources, the passion project that I and Lena Tabori, another publishing lifer, were building to fight the human-caused proliferation of CO2 that is threatening us … [Continue reading]
The end of the general trade publishing concept
My brilliant friend Joe Esposito has written a piece to explain why Penguin Random House would want to acquire Simon & Schuster. I have also been thinking about why PRH, or any of the other three of the "Big Five", would want to acquire S&S. … [Continue reading]