The Economics of Book Publishing

One of the oddest things about being a new writer? The publishing industries new requirement. Writers need to have a reader base before a publisher will touch them.

Book publishing is late to the digital party so it can look to all the many mistakes the music business made in the past decade, and decide how to move into the uncertain future.

It seems like Ben Mezrich has perfect idea for a book. There's only one problem: so far, the book is being billed as a memoir, and I don't recall seeing him at Harvard in 2003, because he wasn't there.