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Continue reading →: Go Read This | HarperCollins’ Acquisition Of Thomas Nelson Is An Investment In Digital | paidContent
You should read the full piece, but I don’t buy the logic. HC would be far better off spending considerably less on a decent design/code house that would bring expertise inside or even in buying the time of an outside house in full than attempting to integrate a large publisher facing all…
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Continue reading →: A Little Thinking About Amazon
I posted this as a comment over at An American Editor who has an interesting piece on Amazon. I thought it was worth putting it here too. ~~~ I think we should judge Amazon by BOTH its words AND its actions. The result is different than just listening to the…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Graphic Novelist Alex de Campi Uses Kickstarter to Sell Print, Film and Foreign Rights | Publishing Perspectives
I rather like this idea, I really do: Crowdsourcing the funding to self-publish books isn’t a new idea. Kickstarter got the trend going more than a year ago, Unbound took it a step further (just to name two examples). But how about using a service like Kickstarter to sell print,…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | OFT gives go-ahead for Amazon/TBD merger | The Bookseller
Not a huge surprise but still, interesting … The Office of Fair Trading has cleared Amazon to take over The Book Depository, ruling the merger would not lead to a lessening of competition within the UK book industry.The OFT decided there was limited pre-merger competition between the two companies and…
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