Success in a Parallel Universe: Perhaps with Some Help from Your DAD
Good morning. We’re going to discuss a subject this morning that was on hardly any radar screens a year ago; it would not have been a compelling subject for presentation at last year’s Making...
View ArticlePublishing and Digital Change: The Implications for the Book Business in...
Good morning. I hope to give you a few things to think about today. And maybe even things to act on without much further thought. We’re going to start with a view of what digital technology could mean...
View ArticleThe Digital State of Play in the US
Good morning. I have accepted the challenge of trying to update you in 15 minutes on how digital technology is affecting book sales and marketing in the US. That means I’ll be talking fast, leaving a...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePlanning the next publishing model: a new take on “no returns”
Although there are some very good minds working on the next publishing model — Jane Friedman with Open Road and Richard Nash with Cursor being the first two that leap to mind — I have developed a...
View ArticleNew data on the Long Tail impact suggests rethinking history and ideas about...
For most of my lifetime, the principal challenge a publisher faced to get a book noticed by a consumer and sold was to get it on the shelves in bookstores. Data was always scarce (I combed for it for...
View ArticleTwo pretty easy ways to add revenue that most publishers are missing
The biggest publishers today are regularly delivering improved profit performance on a flat or declining sales base. This masks a troubling truth about today’s book business. The core asset base of a...
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