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How Capital Is Behind Large Publishing Mergers

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March 15, 2013

One of the least explored and analysed questions of the Random House/Penguin merger is why? Why did these two giant publishers feel combining and increasing their scale was so important? Because scale is the key to understanding the merger, just not the scale you think. Scale is not always good,…
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Go Read This | How International Pricing Strategy Affects Publisher Profitability

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March 15, 2013

Interesting piece by Patrick Crowley on pricing for different territories: On the face of it, McDonald’s overall pricing objective is to increase market share, whereas for publishers it tends to be achieving short term return on investment. Bearing in mind that some markets are mature than others, and can hold…
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On Developing Author Power

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March 13, 2013

Back in July 2006 I wrote: E-books will push this change even more. There is no reason why authors’ royalties should be the same on e-books as they are for paper books and in many ways there is no reason why the authors cannot sell e-books themselves rather than through…
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Go Read This | Random House Digital Imprints | It’s a duck!

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March 11, 2013

No punches pulled by Mick Rooney here: But what really pisses me off about all this is the amount of hours expended by pundits, experts and online commentators, with their heads stuck under the hood of self-publishing, happy to throw virtual shapes, pontificate and moralise on the cracks and leaks…
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Go Read This | Hyperion to Put Older Book Titles on Market

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March 8, 2013

Really fascinating move by Hyperion. I think it marks an intelligent strategic shift but one that wont work for everyone. It allows them to concentrate capital on core brands and remove the distraction of less essential brands that might well be better housed under other houses. It will be interesting…
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