News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
Brooklyn and NYPL librarians recently ran a survey about street lit (what is it? here’s Wikipedia’s entry), and they’ve written up the results in the most recent issue of School Library Journal. Some findings: 49% of the respondents worked in urban libraries, 43% in suburban libraries, and 8% in rural libraries. 92.5% offered street lit [...]
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In the most recent issue of Publishing Trends, we wrote about book rental companies BookSwim, Booksfree, and Paperspine. Read the article here. The comment that leapt out at me during the interview process and has stuck in my head since I wrote the article was from Doug Ross, CEO of Booksfree, who said: “When you [...]
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Laura Hazard Owen | February 2009
It’s hard to remember a time when Netflix didn’t seem like a good idea. The company opened its first distribution center, in San Jose, CA, in 1998, and initially aimed to create the typical Blockbuster experience: Each rental was $4, plus $2 for postage, and there were late fees. In a 2002 interview with Wired [...]
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August 2008
Question: What is “open access” book publishing? What impact will it have on the book publishing industry? Expert: Albert Greco, Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration, Professor of Marketing (see above). Author of The Book Publishing Industry, coauthor of The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century Answer: “When librarians and academics [...]
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