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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Hardie Grant buys Quadrille | The Bookseller
Interesting move by Hardie Grant. in buying Quadrille it’s acquired one of those interesting properties that has book solid print viability (lovely books) and decent prospects of digital expansion via online niches: Hardie Grant, set up in 1997, employs 150 staff across offices in Melbourne, Sydney and London. In London,…
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Continue reading →: For The Record | Consumers, Not Amazon, Were The Winners
I’m growing very tired of seeing the kind of sentiment below (my highlighting): The company has all sorts of regulatory and competitive concerns, making for a minefield of possible conflicts of interest for the owner of The Post. Amazon has opposed states’ efforts to have e-commerce companies collect sales tax.…
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Continue reading →: The Gill Family Takes Full Control Of Gill & Macmillan
Some of the most interesting news in Irish publishing for some time tripped across my phone line and email inbox last night. The Gill Family has bought out Macmillan’s 50% share of one of Ireland’s largest trade and educational publishers, Gill & Macmillan. It’s a fascinating move on many fronts.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Why disruption goes unchecked | Studio Tendra
I see this everyday, small ways in which the old system has become undermined, at the margin. It doesn’t seem like much, but it is huge: This has already begun to affect existing publishers in minor ways. I know of one example where what was in my opinion the most…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Will you be in the nine percent of publishers that survive? | FutureBook
It’s a funny thing, but over the last few years I have found myself, occasionally, thinking less radically about the future than I should be and I can’t help but think that this stems from the fact that I am working on building up/rebuilding a legacy publisher. I suppose all…
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