By Hannah Johnson “Assuming that the physical book is the only incarnation for the writer-reader connection is, I think, a mistake,” said Richard Nash during his presentation at the BookNet Canada conference called “Calculated Risk: Adventures in Book Publishing” on March 25 in Toronto, Canada. The crux of Nash’s presentation was about supply and demand. The current supply chain that …
Day One at TOC New York
By Hannah Johnson O’Reilly’s now industry-standard Tools of Change for Publishing conference began today in New York City with workshops focused on best practices and business opportunities for book publishers. Speakers included members of the book publishing industry as well as professionals from the mobile and video industries. Check out our video for a quick overview of the day and …
Best of ’09: Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is)
Happy New Year! This is our first posting of 2010, which was our most popular posting of 2009: Richard Eoin Nash outlines why and how publishing must change if it is to continue to thrive. Happy New Year! We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, with the third part of Emily Williams’ series on scouting, which looks at the future …
Top US/UK Trade Talk: Penguin’s Profit Slides; BISG Seeks Exec. Dir.
By Edward Nawotka The biggest news of the day by far has been Penguin’s earnings report: The strengthening of the dollar against the pound turned a ” 6% sales decline in the first six months of 2009 into an 11% increase,” wrote Jim Milliot in PW. The UK’s Bookseller explained that “Penguin Group’s results for the first half of 2009 …
Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is)
Editorial by Richard Eoin Nash The book business is a tiny industry perched atop a massive hobby. But rather than celebrate and serve the hobbyists, we expect them to shell out ever more money for the books we keep throwing at them (a half million English-language books in 2008 in the U.S.). Cutting back might work for individual companies, but …
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