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Go Read This | McSweeneys Internet Tendency: The State of Publishing.
I’m always amused when people suggest ebooks are a problem for books and reading and authors, when in reality they are only a problem for the current business set up of bookstores, publishers,...
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Bookshops, You Have Three Choices
It is becoming increasingly clear that bookshops, both chains and independents, are the first segment of the trade book publishing industry to face wrenching decisions that amount to bets on survival...
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Go Read This | Independent bookstores embrace digital publishing with...
I’m intrigued by this. Not least because 5,000 paperbacks in 7 months is 23 books a day. Impressive stuff, though I wonder if ut makes any money: Politics and Prose has produced almost 5,000 paperback...
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Go Read This | Bookshop numbers halved in seven years, says research | The...
Interesting to see the long term trend impact of online sales on bookstores: According to a study by Experian for The Telegraph newspaper, there are 1,878 bookshops left on the high street today,...
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Go Read This | An Industry Pining for Bookstores | The Scholarly Kitchen
A fine post about bookstores, print and emerging ecosystems (I’ve written about before about this new emerging value web) by Joe Esposito over on The Scholarly Kitchen: Trade publishers pine for...
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With MatchBook Amazon Pushes The Envelope, Again!
With the jam made, I can finally sit down and write about MatchBook. Amazon has gotten very good at releasing solutions to problems within publishing that many people have been talking about for some...
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On Amazon Publishing
It’s big news that Larry Kirshbaum is leaving Amazon Publishing, it’s just not so big as it appears, especially as the retailing giant is going nowhere, and its Kindle project is as strong as ever....
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Go Read This | Print as the future of Barnes & Noble | DearAuthor
A good piece, the unspoken element here is that the B&N described here is a much smaller B&N in terms of store and probably in terms of store size as well: Instead B&N should pour that...
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Go Read This | The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the...
Mike is smart, very smart this paragraph nails the problems of booksellers and publishers too: One distracting fact for analysts considering this question has been the apparent slowdown in the growth...
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Go Read This | The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the...
I’ve already linked to this, but it warrants a second link. If you want to understand the basic problems facing book publishers in 2014, then read this post. In it, replace the large publishers and...
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