Let's consider Big Pub in the context of Big Pharma -- an industry that in recent years has faced similar challenges to Big Pub and addressed them with similar business practices.
As long as the old best-seller system keeps declining, making it much, much harder for new writers to break in, alternatives will have to emerge. The only advice that I can give is self-promotion and going where the readers are.
An idea has taken root in certain quarters that publishers aren't necessary any more. And for that matter, who needs bookstores? It's a seductive idea, but it gnores the fundamental realities of the book business.
Great sighs of joy mingled with the steam from fat free mochaccinos as the Books section of the New York Times declared "Publishing Gives Hints of Rev...
These days, books are too expensive, and pricing is one of the publishing industry's most perversely quirky aspects. I learned the hard way how difficult this can be.
NEW YORK — Book publishing may be an industry that never stops predicting its own demise or mourning better days, but it remains golden enough f...
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Books, stacks of books waiting to be read, are piled high in my office. Most of these books were sent to me by publicists or the attributed authors, a...
The book publishing sector has woken up to the revolution that is now beginning to quickly redefine it - and is falling over itself to stake out unfam...
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The federal government is asking Canadians to share their thoughts on the domestic publishing industry and whether changes need to be made to Canada's...
