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Continue reading →: A Problem: Ebook Rights, Small Markets & Divergent Digital Growth Rates
The Frankfurt Book Fair this year was an interesting one for me. It crystalized a few of the many ideas that have been bouncing around in my head. Publishing Perspectives in particular touched on one of the MAJOR issues for smaller market publishers and I wanted to hammer home the…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | More on the Death of Publishers | Mssv
I’m not sure I agree that publishers have done nothing as this suggests, but even so, it is worth reading: But why would the average person not pirate eBooks? Like Cory Doctorow says, it’s not going to become any harder to type in ‘Toy Story 3 bittorrent’ in the future…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link : The Ideal 21st Century Publisher: A Remix | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
This fantasy publisher of mine would be niche-focused, of course, and would view books, print and digital, as but one medium for the stories it acquires, and likely only publish 6-12 physical books/year — a mix of novels, anthologies and comics, featuring work by its authors and their fans. A…
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Continue reading →: Frankfurt Day One 2010: TOC Frankfurt, Canada Livres International Rights Seminar
It has been an excellent if somewhat tiring first day here in Frankfurt. First up was O’Reilly’s Tools Of Change Frankfurt, which started with an interesting overview from Andrew Savikas followed by Pablo Arrieta and Douglas Rushkoff who gave the highlight quote of the morning y telling the room that…
