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Continue reading →: Go Read This | The Quarto Group Chairman’s Statement
There are so many reasons to read the chairman’s* statement in The Quarto Group’s latest update. For starters it is well written and as a result, is a pleasure to read. It is also full of gems like this one: Contrary to popular mythology, most people in the developing world…
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Continue reading →: At Open Road, Backlist Is the New Frontlist
In a further example of the ‘On the internet nobody knows your a backlist book‘ story: The team closely tracks events and milestones that may present an opportunity—including some of the more offbeat occasions—and keeps a large white board in Open Road’s downtown offices to track potential openings. Chou recalled…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Following Germany, Google Play Now Goes Live in Spain | Publishing Perspectives
For me, this news illustrates a number of the trends I’ve been thinking of recently in ebooks. The key players are now (generally speaking) larger than publishers and booksellers (at least traditional publishers and booksellers). There are many moves left in this game and declaring a victor anytime soon seems like folly…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Independent bookstores embrace digital publishing with ‘espresso’ book machine – The Washington Post
I’m intrigued by this. Not least because 5,000 paperbacks in 7 months is 23 books a day. Impressive stuff, though I wonder if ut makes any money: Politics and Prose has produced almost 5,000 paperback books — some in as little as five minutes — since receiving the book machine…
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