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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Is This The End For New Zealand Publishing? | Stuff.co.nz
Really wonderful piece over in The Dominion Post about book publishing in New Zealand. It has serious echoes of the Irish market and many of the same problems crop up for the publishers there. I wrote a column for The Irish Times that touched on some of the issues mentioned.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Automation Anxiety | Wilson Quarterly
So much in this I just don’t know where to start, but it has much to recommend it (also, a Joyce reference!): More than a century has passed since that now-celebrated day in 1904 when Joyce’s creation crisscrossed Dublin, and for most of that time technology and jobs have galloped…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Marketing will replace editorial as the driving force behind publishing houses
Great piece by Mike Shatzkin: While it is probably still true that picking the “right books” is the single most critical set of decisions influencing the success of publishers, it is increasingly true that a house’s ability to get those books depends on their ability to market them. As the…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Face it: your digital product is a service | NEXT Berlin
Great post this! Like this piece: This is why digital products are more akin to services. If you have a bad day in a restaurant, the staff talk, and they adjust what they offer for the next day. Mistakes can be more readily rectified, customer demands worked into the product…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Smashwords Signs Distribution Agreement with Oyster
Smashwords keeps doing interesting and exciting things, no question about it. I’m intrigued by two things here, the first that with such a decent catalogue, Smashwords can now, almost on its own, create a viable market offering for a start-up with an innovative idea, the second that self-published material, as…
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