Publishing

Publishing Links for the New Year

January 2, 2011

As of November 2010, ebooks still have a ways to go. According to a Forrester survey, more people used laptops than any other ebook reading device. If laptops and their smaller sibling the netbook are combined, nearly 50% of ebooks were read on a computer rather than a specialized ebook reader. This is not a [...]

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The Optimism of Skip Picard

September 22, 2010

I have been meaning to post a link to this article for awhile. Skip Picard, CEO of Ingram Book Company, wrote an optimistic piece about the future of publishing, and books, for The Daily Beast. He makes the worthwhile point that since the high sales of the Kindle and iPad the sales of hardcover books [...]

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Publishing Statistics

September 9, 2010

You might call them depressing statistics, but they are facts and worth keeping in mind when you contemplate publication. The short story is this: Less than 2% of published books will be commercially viable. For a full breakdown of the stats: http://jessiemac.com/blog/2010/08/09/i-am-a-writer-should-i-get-a-book-deal-self-publish-or-self-distribute/ The following article takes a broad look at the publishing world today, but [...]

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Wylie’s War

August 4, 2010

The big news rocking the publishing world is that Andrew Wylie is thumbing his nose at the publishing companies.(1) The Wylie Agency (run by Mr. Wylie) signed an exclusive ebook deal with Amazon.com to release to release 20 title on the Kindle, with the possibility of more. Everyone in the industry–publishers, agents, and even authors–are [...]

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Salon Interview With Clay Shirky

July 27, 2010

Early in July Salon put up a February Barnes & Noble interview with Clay Shirky. This is a man on whom is heaped the praise, “Shirky has emerged as a luminary of the new digital intelligentsia, a daringly eclectic thinker as comfortable discussing 15th-century publishing technology as he is making political sense of 21st-century social [...]

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Where Ebooks are Today

July 23, 2010

A few links to give an un-scientific snapshot of where ebooks currently stand in the book market. Mashable.com(1) has an article up asking readers which they prefer more, ebooks or physical books. Being a tech leaning website I expected ebooks to score well with all the techno-phile readers. After all, people who avoid computers aren’t [...]

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Fearing or Embracing the Publishing Future

July 21, 2010

It can be interesting to read through articles in the publishing industry and see how different people, and companies, are reacting to the changes in the publishing world. An example of a more embracing attitude would be David “Skip” Prichard the c.e.o of Ingram Content Group. Prichard’s attitude is that, “New players don’t know what [...]

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Amazon, Author Royalties, and Ebook Pricing

July 12, 2010

I recently came across an article that gives a peak at the underside of the ebook publishing world. This falls under the category of “See How Much We Were Ripping You Off”: SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it is now offering do-it-yourself authors and publishers royalties of about 70 percent on their e-books. The [...]

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Idea Logical Ebook Opinion

July 2, 2010

Mike Shatzkin over at the Idea Logical Blog (http://www.idealog.com/blog) has his own opinion about the future of ebooks. In his view, he sees a more aggressive adoption of ebook readers. He sees an estimate of 50% of book sales being ebooks in 5 years as low. My current views are more conservative. I do agree [...]

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The Genius of PediaPress

July 1, 2010

PediaPress is an example of what part of the future of print on demand publishing will look like. The following is from a press release by Ingram the parent company of Lightning Source, a print on demand company: PediaPress teams with Ingram’s Lightning Source on Wikipedia custom book application La VERGNE, TN – Ingram’s Lightning [...]

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