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Continue reading →: Go read This | For the First Time In History, Print Is Optional. Now What? | Publishing In the 21st Century
Interesting paragraph in a very interesting piece by Richard Curtis: More significantly, by electing not to print a book at all, these so-called legacy publishers put themselves in danger of losing the very thing that defines them. What profiteth a publisher to gain the world and lose its soul? Today Random House…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction | Media | The Guardian
You would be forgiven if you read this piece and thought afterwards that the only print books sold in bookshops were literary fiction and non-fiction and the bulk of them Booker prize winners. Of course we know this isn’t true and just as readers of digital books like their genre…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Friday Project buys Aldiss backlist | The Bookseller
Interesting deal: HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project has acquired more than 50 titles by prolific author, and former Bookseller columnist, Brian Aldiss. Publisher Scott Pack bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the titles—comprising literary fiction, sci-fi and non-fiction works—as well as Aldiss—entire short-story archive from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown.…
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Continue reading →: Confusing Statistics And What They Might Mean
I was thrown by several stats in this story. (E-Book Bummer: Growth Slower Than Thought—‘Incremental, Not Exponential’ | paidContent.) I touched on the issue of digital growth earlier today, but this story warrants a separate consideration. For one: According to new data from Bowker and the Book Industry Study Group,…
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Continue reading →: Digital Growth At Quercus, And Beyond
There has been some grumbling (I’ve a note coming on that later) about the slow pace of digital take up in the US in the last few days and weeks. I’ve a feeling that has as much to do with the now higher benchmarks the digital market is growing from. By…
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