Richard Nash on the Future of Publishing
Very interesting speech from Richard Nash on the future of publishing and the need for publishers and readers to be more connected: (Some Twitterer mentioned that Richard seemed a bit like Tom Cruise in Magnolia . . . I can see that.) ...
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A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing
The recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has a really interesting piece by Peter J. Dougherty—director of Princeton University Press—on the future of academic publishing. Rather than lament the slow, never-ending death of print, he takes a different approach: And while university presses grapple ...
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More eARC Info
Last week, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, Jenn Northington, Stephanie Anderson, and other independent booksellers started a conversation about the benefits of eARCs—electronic versions of the Advance Reading Copies all publishers send out to reviewers, booksellers, bloggers, etc. My complete post about this can be found ...
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E-Books and Indie Bookstores: Part II — Business Models
Putting aside the environmental, financial, and promotional advantages to sending eARCs to independent booksellers, the one paragraph of Jessica Stockton Bagnulo’s post that troubled me was this: I think for a lot of booksellers right now, the idea of an e-reader provokes growls of hostility because it’s ...
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E-Books and Indie Bookstores: Part I — eARCs
I have to visit a graduate seminar later today to talk about e-books and the future of the publishing industry, so the impact e-books will have (or rather, are having) on publishing structures (like indie bookstores) has been very much on my mind the past few days, so finding Jessica Stockton Bagnulo’s post about recent ...
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Lance Fensterman on BEA's Future
Over at MediumAtLarge, Lance Fensterman has started a short series of posts entitled “Who Is BEA?” on what BookExpo America is and how it should evolve. Ultimately I believe the event’s success is measured by the demand and buzz publishers create for their book(s) and how meaningfully they impact the ...
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You Can Take the Man Out of Publishing, But . . .
He may have resigned from Soft Skull, but as evidenced in a recent post, at his personal blog—always a source of great erudition and entertainment—Richard Nash still has a lot to say about the business of publishing, the so-called “death of the book,” etc.: People, the book will live on with the ...
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