Quantcast
Channel: The Idea Logical Company
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

VIDEO: Planning for a Long Career in an Industry That’s Changing

Special thanks to The Publishing Point and DailyLit The post VIDEO: Planning for a Long Career in an Industry That’s Changing appeared first on The Idea Logical Company.

View Article



Supply chain analysis could get even more important as store sales diminish

The necessity for publishers to reduce their hard-copy operating costs, the reality that smaller as well as fewer bookstores are inevitable, and the overall question of shrinking shelf space are topics...

View Article

From some perspectives, we are tipping right now and publishers’ metrics will...

Sometimes, and it would seem quite often these days, the future comes faster than you expected it. Followers of this blog, and of my speeches before there was a blog (this one’s from 2001!), know I’ve...

View Article

Will print and ebook publishers ultimately be doing the same books?

Recent performance reports from Simon & Schuster and Penguin, which can be taken as indicative in some ways of what’s going on at the rest of the Big Six and instructive about what’s happening...

View Article

Show me the data!

One thing we try to do at Digital Book World is to present our audiences with useful, relevant, and, when we can, original data. It is a familiar complaint in our industry that we drive blind. Part of...

View Article


Learned (or figured out) at BEA 2012

BookExpo America, trade publishing’s industry-wide gathering, just completed what must be considered another successful year at Javits Center last week. Attendance was pretty much what it had been last...

View Article

Penguin Random House does its competitors a favor by walking away from...

I sometimes feel like I’m the only guy in town (NYC, but I’d include London too) contemplating out loud how Penguin Random House might use its position as by far the biggest commercial trade publisher...

View Article

The publishing business as we have known it is not going away anytime soon

Regular readers, please pardon me for the unusual length of this post, but it covers a lot of ground that I think is necessary to make the point. A friend who has actually been working fulltime in the...

View Article


Agency pricing didn’t restrain Amazon; it strengthened them

Many, if not most, of the people in publishing houses I know have what they feel is a pretty clear picture of the changes we’re seeing in the business. There seems to be a strong consensus that the...

View Article


A changing book business: it all seems to be flowing downhill to Amazon

Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle in 2007 was followed rapidly by other ebook systems — Kobo, Google, B&N’s Nook, and Apple’s iBook — and widely-available print-on-demand capabilities for printed...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live




Latest Images