The digital dynamo prepares to stand its ground in the ebook price-fixing case coming next month to a Manhattan courtroom. Meanwhile, book industry insiders discover they will have to settle for double-digit growth in ebook sales, after years of triple-digit jumps. “E-books in 2012 accounted for over $3 billion is sales, with a slew of [...]
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More Than Books For BookExpo
What to expect at BookExpo America for 2013? Books, of course, from the Big 6 publishers to the growing ranks of the indies. Authors, too, naturally – often seated at the end of long lines of autograph-seekers, and this year, as part of UPublish U, they’re sharing insights on self-publishing with other authors. For a preview, Steven Rosato, BEA Event [...]
Books Make Good Listening
The idea is often advanced that the rise of video on the Web will undermine reading habits – and that in a contest of pictures over words, the words will come out the loser. The jury is still out, but the spoken word has long enjoyed a warm relationship with books, and in 2013, that [...]
Reaching Readers
As online merchants displace brick and mortar bookstores, the move throws publishers out of a business-to-business environment and into the arms of consumers. That paradigm shift from B2B to B2C is likely to see emergence of consumer-focused verticals in publishing, with dramatic implications for the way books are marketed. Coming to New York City later [...]
Hot Books Start With ‘Hot House’
With more books appearing every day, finding a book that’s worth the money and time it takes to read becomes a challenge. The publishing business worries over this as much as readers do, and they’ve taken to talking frantically at conferences about “discoverability.” For Publishers Weekly’s upcoming issue, staff writers come to the rescue with their [...]
Who Will Save Our Books?
A bestselling author has sent out an S-O-S for the book trade. Last week James Patterson took out ads on the cover of Publisher Weekly, in The New York Times Book Review, and in Kirkus asking the questions, “Who will save our books? Our bookstores? Our libraries?” Judging by the ensuing media coverage, he achieved [...]
Yale Publishing Course Set for 2013
From Abu Dhabi to Athens, Shanghai to Sao Paulo, and from all over the United States, The Yale Publishing Course – Leadership Strategies in Magazine and Digital Publishing, and Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing – brings mid-to senior level publishing professionals to the Ivy League campus every summer for five intensive days of lectures on industry trends and challenges, case [...]
Amazon: Friend or Foe?
As the US celebrates National Library Week, there’s cause for celebration in the stacks. News from Simon & Schuster details a one-year, pilot e-book lending program with New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Library. Over at the London Book Fair, attendees have argued the future of copyright, and debated the question: “Amazon: Friend or [...]
Lessons For Publishing University
“Discoverability – How to reach readers, and sell more books” is the 2013 theme for Publishing University, the annual conference of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Coming to Chicago, April 26-27, “Pub U” programs range from buying trends in e-books to the “selling power of book design.” Keynote speakers include Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist for Apple, and [...]
Are Books Part of the Past?
Are books part of the past? Or are they essential to the future? No, we’re not talking about the shopworn debate over the death of print. In this clash for hearts and minds and money, books will likely survive — but what future lies ahead for books authors? Even as the industry sees reason for [...]
