The Future of Books for Publishers and Booksellers
Good day. I want to start out by thanking Olaf Winslow and the Danish booksellers for inviting me to your lovely city to talk to you today about the future of books for publishers and booksellers. You...
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This post will discuss a realization I had even before this morning’s news about the developing e-products scene. I’ve always been a skeptic about enhanced ebooks, based on seeing my hunch that they...
View Article“Scale” is a theme everybody in publishing needs to be thinking about, so...
The overarching theme of our upcoming Publishers Launch Conference at BookExpo America on May 29 is “scale”. I thank my PLC partner, Michael Cader, for urging that we label that as a core concern...
View ArticleTwo thoughts: what was one book business may divide by format and backlist...
It’s a busy week for us this week, with BookExpo America in town. We have our all-day Publishers Launch conference on Wednesday, May 29, and a solid two days of appointments on Thursday and Friday. I...
View ArticleA 10-point strategy for mini-vertical creation
The last post here, where I suggested that publishers should reconsider how they handle first serials, begs a number of follow-up questions. Two people commenting on the post raised the concern that...
View ArticleBooks as brands and the opportunities to sell book-branded merchandise
There’s a lot in this post that anticipates conversations we will have at Digital Book World 2016, coming up March 7-9 at the New York Hilton. “Transformation” will be an important theme at that event...
View ArticleTransformation of companies and the book industry itself are not just 21st...
Company transformation is a major theme at this year’s Digital Book World conference. By “transformation” we mean substantial changes in a company’s business model or core competencies or revenue...
View ArticleNews this week that demonstrates how timely Digital Book World programming...
There are some days that the news I see just makes me feel so good about the programming we’re doing for this year’s Digital Book World. One of those days was earlier this week when the news pointed...
View ArticleIf the industry is changing, publishing house structures, processes, and...
A thought kept recurring — one I’ve written about before — while I was learning new stuff at Digital Book World last week. The structure of publishing houses and of the publishing process as it has...
View ArticleThe latest marketplace data would seem to say publishers are as strong as ever
This post began being written a couple of weeks ago when I recalled some specific misplaced expectations I had for the self-publishing revolution and started to ponder why things happened the way they...
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