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January 2010
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Peter Hildick-Smith is Founder and President of the Codex Group. 2009 will be remembered as the beginning of the digital tipping point for book publishing, the year our industry took its turn as the last of the major media to enter the digital transition, following in the highly challenged footsteps of the music, newspaper, magazine, [...]
Angela James is the Executive Editor of Carina Press. We live in an age of want-it-now, get-it-now technology, an age where people are used to being able to adapt their entertainment to suit their schedules: DVRs, movies on demand, iTunes, game systems that provide immediate access to products, other gamers, and even movies. Consumers expect [...]
Anthony Forbes-Watson is the Managing Director of Pan Macmillan (UK). Grimly bookended by the collapses of Woolworths and Borders, 2009 was suffused with the smell of crisis and peppered with job loss announcements, but ended up being merely bad rather than catastrophic, with sales forecast to be only a little down on the year before. [...]
PEOPLE ROUNDUP In December, Jenny Frost stepped down as President and Publisher of Crown, after a reorganization that split off the information and audio units. She may be reached at jennyfrost [at] verizon dot net. Doubleday Canada’s Maya Mavjee will relocate to succeed Frost overseeing the smaller Crown division. Bonnie Ammer has resigned from her [...]
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