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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Catherine Cookson’s estate set to infuriate publishing houses by releasing 100 cut-price e-books | Mail Online
As if we needed more evidence this week that the old model is under severe pressure from new and competing models, it crops up from an unexpected source: She sold more than 100million books and was for years the most-borrowed author in British libraries. Now, more than 12 years after…
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Continue reading →: Stop Making It Bigger | EoinPurcell.com
I have a quick strategy note over on my EoinPurcell.com for publishers, especially small and medium-sized one, on how they can stop making their backlists a digital problem and maybe start moving towards selling ebooks: Well to my mind, the first thing ANY publisher needs to do, even if they…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Book Blog | The Spectator
A wonderfully snide analysis of Eason (Ireland’s largest book retailer) in The Spectator Book Blog the other day. Foreign retailers have it no easier. In the States, Borders is poised to collapse; whilst in Ireland, shrinking giant Eason can’t stop making a loss. Radical measures that should have been taken…
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Continue reading →: Yet Another Bloomsbury Property Goes Digital
There’s a paragraph on Bloomsbury’s Strategy page on their website that always grabs me. It reads: A key element to Bloomsbury’s strategy is to broaden the base on which it acquires and exploits intellectual property. This began in 1994 with retaining paperback rights and moving into children’s publishing. With the…
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