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Go Read This | The Big Reveal Part II: How Many Copies of MOUSETRAPPED Have I...
I didn’t think this, but fair enough! I’m impressed. I know what you’re thinking. No, I really do. I can practically hear it through the screen. You’re thinking, 531 copies? Well that’s all well and...
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Go Read This | E-books overtake US paperbacks
First off, don’t get TOO excited. The figures are very impressive, but they carry some health warnings the three biggest: Ebook sales are undifferentiated whereas print sales are segmented Thess are...
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Exclusive: Indie Author Michael Wallace Signs 5 Book Deal With Amazon | David...
Fascinating post over on David Gaughran’s blog from Michael Wallace on why he signed a deal with Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint: My sales accelerated from a handful, to a bunch, to hundreds and...
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Go Read This | Will print and ebook publishers ultimately be doing the same...
Mike Shatzkin looks at the current realities of ebooks and print books and what is happening. I think we are only a few months shy of encountering the kind of events I describe here, at least in the...
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Briefly Noted | E-Book Bummer: Growth Slower Than Thought—‘Incremental, Not...
Print power buyers make up 22 percent of the overall print book-buying population, and they drive 53 percent of print book purchases overall. Meanwhile, e-book power buyers make up 35 percent of the...
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Go read This | For the First Time In History, Print Is Optional. Now What? |...
Interesting paragraph in a very interesting piece by Richard Curtis: More significantly, by electing not to print a book at all, these so-called legacy publishers put themselves in danger of losing the...
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The Growth Of The UK Ebook Market
Really fascinating glimpse of the development of the UK ebook business from BML/Bowker (as a teaser for their annual conference in March): The survey also looks at how the e-book industry fares by...
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Thoughts On >> Waterstones & Amazon
I have to say, this notion didn’t once enter my mind when I thought about Waterstones options, not because it’s a bad idea (far from it) but because I never thought Waterstones and its management would...
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In Search Of The Number
There is a number I’d like to know, if I knew it, I think it would help me explain some things that currently seem inexplicable to some and unclear to me. I know the number exists because I can phrase...
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On The Media Show
I recorded a piece about ebooks, digital change and self publishing for the media show last week. It’s right at the top of the show and I think it went pretty well: There’s also a fascinating piece...
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Go Read This | An Industry Pining for Bookstores | The Scholarly Kitchen
A fine post about bookstores, print and emerging ecosystems (I’ve written about before about this new emerging value web) by Joe Esposito over on The Scholarly Kitchen: Trade publishers pine for...
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Go Read This | Why disruption goes unchecked | Studio Tendra
I see this everyday, small ways in which the old system has become undermined, at the margin. It doesn’t seem like much, but it is huge: This has already begun to affect existing publishers in minor...
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On Amazon Publishing
It’s big news that Larry Kirshbaum is leaving Amazon Publishing, it’s just not so big as it appears, especially as the retailing giant is going nowhere, and its Kindle project is as strong as ever....
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Go Read This | Mainframe Bookselling and Internet Commerce
Bookshops and their fate have been coming under increased scrutiny in the last few month. Whether they can be saved or not in an interesting question. My sense is that many of the chains will no longer...
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