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More people are consuming content than ever, so leave your sad trombone at home.
How publishing escaped the cruel fate of other culture industries
"Our experience in this area has demonstrated that management in the cultural sector tends to consider these new companies potential competitors, for which reason they are ignored. Other management teams agree to meet them with a view to extracting information on their vision of the future in the sector, without any real intention of working with them. Other, more arrogant, publishers feel that their broad knowledge of the sector, coupled with certain internal resources, are quite sufficient to face any digital challenges."
Good data on publisher exec salaries.
Straightforward about what publishers do and don't do.
Historical look at publishing, challenges to print system.
Interesting take on the coll-dev challenges of selecting ebooks where the usual review apparatus isn't present.
Lots of potential syllabus-worthy material here.
Big-hit author goes self-. Decent if not comprehensive discussion of what trad pubs actually do.
The book trade's response to the creation of Penguin Random House has been largely despairing – but there is new hope for independents
Nice piece on the economics of book advances and trade-publisher profits.
The growing business of self-published books has spawned an industry in which hired reviewers produce favorable online reviews.
Additionally, about 43% of Gen Y’s purchases are focused online, and the shift to digital channels is increasingly undeniable.
Hachette tries to tell author not to allow Tor to provide un-DRMed ebooks.
Publishers need a new operating system. Here are three core features that would make it work.
And two-thirds of American counties had no bookstore at all.