Publishing

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Since I have my ongoing series of essays about the current changes in publishing(1) I was pleaseed to stumble across an interview with Neil Gaiman in which he touches on this very subject. If Neil Gaiman says something, it has to be true, right? An excerpt from the interview: And what about the changing role [...]