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,…Continue Reading
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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…Continue Reading
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….Continue Reading
Publishing Trends thanks marketing consultant Rich Kelley for this piece. What’s the new frontier for targeted online ads? Could the long tail go bankrupt? What does social media offer that social networks don’t? Publishers, advertisers, and service providers flocked to ad:tech at the Javits Center in early November for three days of 60 panels and…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE ROUNDUP Madeline McIntosh has returned to Random House in the newly created position of President, Sales, Operations, and Digital. Her direct reports include Andrew Weber, SVP, Ops & Technology; Jaci Updike, SVP, Director, Random House Adult Sales; Joan DeMayo, SVP, Director, Children’s Sales and Director, Special Markets Sales; and Bonnie Ammer, EVP, International Sales….Continue Reading
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Please take our survey! It’s short and sweet and covers three topics: books based on blogs, wining and dining, and publishing pop culture. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=pBCdLIwMQphdFn_2fUUEX6AA_3d_3d For each survey respondent, we will donate to this high-poverty NYC middle school’s classroom library project on DonorsChoose.org.
[This is a guest post by Rich Kelley, a New York–based marketing consultant. Follow him on Twitter here. Thanks, Rich!] Tim Armstrong, AOL’s new CEO, divides internet history into three phases. The first phase was about access—remember dial-up modems and limited bandwidth? The second phase, when browsers and search engines competed for eyeballs, was about…Continue Reading
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This is a guest post by Marian Schembari, who just got her first publishing job, working at Jane Wesman Public Relations as an associate publicist. She graduated from Davidson College this year with a degree in Sociology of Gender. She has started a blog for other recent grads who want to get into publishing–check it…Continue Reading
