Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How does vicarious trauma affect historians? Bookstore sales fell 28.3% last year. Can Amazon remain antifragile without Jeff…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Bookstore sales fell 10.3% in August. What is Jeff Bezos’s end game? How will we face the coming book preservation…Continue Reading
Dear Colleague, In cleaning up our office to allow for much-needed renovations, we came across files from the early days of Market Partners International. It’s hard to believe — for us in particular — that MPI is now in its 30th year of business, but it’s true. We’re still in our original offices and still…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Mediabistro further unpacks the diversity and gender data in the Publishers Weekly Salary Survey. What does Authors United’s continued…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon-Hachette negotiations, American Library Association, Authors United, Banned Books Week, Hachette, Huffington Post, Jeff Bezos, MediaBistro, Publishers Weekly, Salary Survey, Scholarly Journal
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. School Library Journal addresses the issues of calling diverse books “special interest.” New data shows that the Long Tail…Continue Reading
With this post, PublishingTrends.com continues its regular column in which it reviews, explicates and excerpts books that we think will resonate with people in the business of publishing and media. The concept of customer service has come to the forefront for businesses hoping to assert themselves in a growing digital marketplace where a customer has…Continue Reading
Jacqueline Murphy is an agent at Inkwell Management. She may be reached at jacque [at] inkwell.com or on Twitter @JacqueMurphy. Having lately switched my jersey to play for Team Agent after many years running with Team Publisher, what surprised me at once was that that my job hasn’t changed. As citizens of an interconnected ecosystem,…Continue Reading
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Tagged Apple, Google, InkWell Management, Jacqueline Murphy, Jeff Bezos, Netflix, Shelfari, Squidoo, Steve Jobs, Tim O'Reilly, Wattpad
David Rothman Founder, Teleread.org Sure, Oprah loves the Kindle, Amazon’s gizmo for reading electronic books, even if it looks a bit like a Soviet-made adding machine. And a second model probably will be on the way—in fact, perhaps two. We just might see an econo-Kindle and a large-screened version for students. Forbes is so excited…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Amazon, Android, David Rothman, digital rights management, DRM, EPUB, eReader, Forbes, Google, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Oprah, Pan Macmillan, Plastic Logic, Sony Reader, Stanza, Teleread, Tools of Change
Two New Surveys Suggest That Book Price-Elasticity Is Getting All Stretched Out Among the persnickety trends of 2002 was continued brow-furrowing from industry observers and surveyors about the perception that book prices are disastrously high (see article). Some have cited the ruinous effect of “increasingly ubiquitous remainders” on the one hand, and stunningly deep discounts…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon.com, Authors Guild, Barnes & Noble, BN.com, Book Reporter, Bowker, Carol Fitzgerald, Christopher Dreher, Jeff Bezos, Len Riggio, Michael Cader, Mike Shatzkin, New York Is Book Country, Open eBook Forum, Robert Sahr, Tablet PC
PEOPLE Heads rolling in and rolling out: Marco Ausenda, who comes from Touring Club Italia, will replace Antonio Polito as the head of Rizzoli US, reporting to Giulio Lattanzi. . . Jean-Marie Messier’s still running Vivendi, but of course major changes at Houghton Mifflin: Teri Kelly succeeds Wendy Strothman as SVP and head of trade…Continue Reading
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