News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
June 2009
PT thanks Judith Weber of Sobel Weber Associates for her reporting. Late in the week at the Symposium for Professional Food Writers, Chronicle editor Bill LeBlond introduced an efficient “information delivery device.” As he demonstrated, it enabled the user to open to a recipe, a block of text, or a beautiful four-color photograph. The device [...]
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November 2003
Lucrative, Licensed Book Lines Are Looking Better All the Time As book publishers search in an ever-widening gyre for “consumer equity,” “points of differentiation,” and authors pre-packaged with their own “platforms,” it may be no shock that the concept of franchise publishing — partnering to publish licensed, branded, or co-branded titles, or even signing up [...]
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