…if you ask the big bookstore chains what is their biggest concern about the marketplace, they say ‘consolidation among the big publishers.’ This little informal survey accurately depicted the dominant trend across publishing of the last quarter of the 20th century
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Consumer Publishing Today: A Model Under Threat?
Publishers want to be sure that whenever the market is ready for e-books, they have the rights to publish e-books for the titles they have already established in the print format
Crossing the Chasm – Getting from the Physical Here to the Digital There
Times are getting tougher and tougher for established publishers doing things in established ways This is structural. Change is making doing what they’ve always done a lot harder to do
Getting to 2010 – The Implications of Change
The scenario we have presented for The Book Trade in 2010 differs almost entirely from the The Book Trade of 2000 that we know. We prepared the scenario over a considerable period of time, and included the thoughts of dozens of people. I think my colleagues Mark and Hugh would agree with me that, while we are humble about our ability to predict all the particulars of change, we are very comfortable that the magnitude of the change we are predicting is entirely reasonable within the next ten years
Publishing & Bookselling: From Now to 2005
There is no doubt that digital technology changes the way publishers and booksellers handle their most basic business processes, but it is likely that the most profound changes digital technology will create will be in the marketplace itself