By Edward Nawotka In our lead story today, author and marketer M.J. Rose and publisher Robert Miller debate the future of what the publisher/author relationship. Both come at the topic from different angles, but they both agree that advances, as they exist today, need to change. Rose wants marketing expenses undertaken by the publisher [...]
As 2009 comes to a close we wanted to celebrate by bringing you a week’s worth of your favorite articles that we’re run on Publishing Perspectives. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, with our next new feature. In the meantime, enjoy the best of ‘09 and check our news blog for updates and analysis. Today, [...]
As 2009 comes to a close we wanted to celebrate by bringing you a week’s worth of your favorite articles that we’re run on Publishing Perspectives. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, with our next new feature. In the meantime, enjoy the best of ‘09 and check our news blog for updates and analysis. Today, [...]
By Edward Nawotka Our analysis of the global ranking of publishers offers insight into which is the biggest and, arguably, most powerful company in publishing today. But, companies are made up of people — individuals — some of whom are merely efficient managers/caretakers and others who are visionaries willing to take risks that may or [...]
By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story discusses how the remainder book market continues to be robust, despite a relatively depressed global economy. It’s only reasonable that people would search for bargains when the money is tight. It’s also one of the reasons that Amazon, Wal-Mart and others started a brief price war in November, one that [...]
As 2009 comes to a close we wanted to celebrate by bringing you a week’s worth of your favorite articles that we’re run on Publishing Perspectives. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, with our next new feature. In the meantime, enjoy the best of ‘09 and check our news blog for updates [...]
By Edward Nawotka Early reports are positive and indicate holiday sales were up 3.6 percent this holiday shopping season. But keep in mind that this is up over last year, which was the worst year in nearly half a century. Internet shopping was up 15.5% over last year. Amazon says that the “Kindle is the most gifted item [...]
By Siobhan O’Leary Those who buy books online shop differently from those who go to the bookstore, according to a survey conducted by Germany’s GfK market research group and reported in the Boersenblatt. For one thing, 70% of book orders placed on Amazon.de are planned ahead of time. Impulse buys are much more common [...]
By Siobhan O’Leary A study conducted by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (the German Publishers and Booksellers Association), revealed the percentage of 20- to 29-year-olds who “read daily” or “more than daily” dropped from 37 to 33%. The same group, one which grew up using computer technology and the Internet consider themselves as Internet users first [...]
As 2009 comes to a close we wanted to celebrate by bringing you a week’s worth of your favorite articles that we’ve run on Publishing Perspectives. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, with our next new feature. In the meantime, enjoy the best of ‘09 and check our news blog for updates and analysis. [...]
