When I first started closely following the big changes in the publishing industry, James Bridle’s blog BookTwo was one of my first stops. And since then I’ve continued to watch with great appreciation as James has pushed and poked at “publishing.” The passion that drives his endeavours – passion for books, for words, for writing, [...]
Towards a world of smaller books, from Crooked Timber:
The length of the average book reflects the economics of the print trade and educated guesses as to what book-buyers will actually pay for, much more than it does the actual intellectual content of the book itself…
and:
All this may be changing as we move towards an electronic [...]
Marion Maneker, columnist at The Big Money, responds to Penguin CEO John Makinson’s WSJ OpEd. He makes the point more clearly than I’ve yet seen it that the book industry suffers from “oversupply and too much risk.” It’s not digital per se that is the real problem; but digital just makes it easier for others [...]
I was asked to do BookNet Canada’s “Interviews with Industry Innovators.” I did. Here I am, looking a bit pudgier than seems reasonable:
Link at Blip.tv.
I’ve got a “Publishing Year in Review” post up over at the BookNet Canada Blog, with a few predictions thrown in at the end:
I started off 2009 with a trip to London, to attend BookCampUK – an unconference about books. While there were big rumblings of fear and hand-wringing about the arrival of the digital [...]
Does design matter? Yes:
What does that mean for books?
Does design matter? Yes:
What does that mean for books?
Great turnout at BookCamp Vancouver … Should be a great day. I’m moderating with (1pm in the 2245 McCarthy Tetrault Lecture Room) Nick Bouton of Protagonize with the following about:
Nick Bouton from Taunt Media / Protagonize and Hugh McGuire from BookOven; When readers are more than just readers … Publishing in a connected network. A [...]
Writer Joe Konrath, who publishes with Hyperion has some Kindle books published by his publisher; he owns electronic rights to some back-list titles, and he self-published those to Kindle. He’s got a post with some interesting discussion about the value of publishing, royalties etc in the age of the ebook, but more interesting I think [...]
I was on a panel the other day about ebook pricing for O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing, Online Conference. Included in the panel were: Michael Tamblyn, VP Sales at Shortcovers; Trip Adler CEO Scribd; Neelan Choksi, CEO Lexcycle/Stanza. And the panel was moderated by Joe Wikert, Publisher at O’Reilly.
If you attended the event, you [...]
