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Continue reading →: Publishers, Stop Being Craven, Forge Your Own Future
For some time there has been a funny dichotomy in the publishing industry worldwide. On the one hand publishers have decried the growing influence of powerful tech companies from outside the industry. Google, Amazon, Apple all fall into that category (Amazon aside from being an impressive online retailer is also…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This TOO | The Misleading “Research” By McSweeney’s
Worth reading this, it pretty much hits all the thoughts I had on reading the McSweeney’s material! Let’s be clear: I don’t think print will die. But that’s no reason to concoct “research” about publishing that says “almost all of the news is good, and most of it is very…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The State of Publishing.
Some great quotes, some interesting stats, though when I was finished I was left with three over-riding thoughts: Libraries are benefiting from the economic slowdown Audiences are fragmenting and the idea of touchstone works is being eroded Librarians think they might just replace publishers Later in our phone conversation, Ms. Reardon did…
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