One of the first times I talked to a book publishing audience trying to visualize the future that digital change would bring was about ten years ago at Book Expo America. It was already apparent at that time that the music business might have a major problem and there seemed to be ways that publishing might follow
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Supply Chain Data and Canada’s Opportunity
I don’t have to tell a roomful of people from the Canadian publishing industry that Canada is the most difficult market for publishers in the English-speaking world. You know it, although it may add to my credibility with you to assure you that I know it too
Sales and Marketing in the Digital Age
It is past time for every company to consciously formulate a sales strategy to compete in the channel that is already for many books the single most important, and the one which we know is only bound to grow for the foreseeable future
Book Distribution Between Now and 2005: Building the Infrastructure for the New Paradigm
…the change required to build a whole new paradigm is much greater than we’ve experienced. In the inevitable future I’ve described, printers and shippers are obviously in peril. Publishers, wholesalers, libraries, bookstores must certainly change form, even to serve the same purposes they serve today. The expertise at the logistics of moving physical goods which is so critical to make our current value chain work will be less highly valued
Databases and Networks – The Core Competencies of 21st Century Publishing
What has defined us so far has been the configuration of our end product: the book. That has seemed to be quite enough definition