Jonathan Karp, editor-in-chief of Twelve, wishes for the days before Judith Regan in a piece at washingtonpost.com. Executives have to deliver growth year over year. To do that, Karp says, they can either..
Add more titles
Sell more copies of existing authors and titles
Increase output per author
Diversify the offering
Cut costs
The best bit is on traditional houses losing [...]
Not many readers out there, but there are sure are a lot of writers. Recently, I lamented Wiley’s missed opportunity to acquire a book by Mitch Joel. Today I was thrilled to see Andy Nulman is working with Wiley on a project due in February of 2009. It would be awesome if Andy’s company — [...]
I wandered into the new HMV store on the weekend. I had forgotten they were upgrading it. The one thing that tipped me off — it was smaller. They had closed the lower level. The inventory mix is equal parts music and movies with a smaller (but substantial) video game section. It wouldn’t slow a [...]
Chris Anderson posted this paragraph within a longer bit about Kevin Kelly’s recent story in Wired…
To that legal point, I was recently chatting in Seattle with a guy who runs the largest collection of server farms in North America outside of Google–he actually owns many of the facilities that Amazon’s EC2 service and Microsoft’s cloud [...]
Jason Kottke pointed to this post last week at benandalice.com — what the poor, hip litsters do for fun in New York City — they read the New York Review of Books Personals, where know thyself is a spectator sport.
“This woman sounds like she was born from that stuff white people love website.” After all, [...]
I am a big fan of illustrated covers. The publisher I used to work for didn’t have any illustrators on staff, so covers tended to be stock photos and type-treatments. I am also a big fan of student work. It is often better than in-house work. The kids are hungrier. Here is my favourite from [...]
A Rogers representative is quoted, re: iphone plans, as saying…”Unlimited plans could end up costing customers more for what they don’t use….”
Meaning if you bought an unlimited plan you would pay for more than you would use — you would be paying for the “un” of the word “unlimited”.
No sir, you can’t have an additional [...]
Christine Dunn, the head of marketing for Wiley’s European efforts, is interviewed at Book Business Magazine.
We’ve probably done more than 100 videos, and one of our more recent [videos] had more than 26,000 views on YouTube, so we’re excited about that. When you think about the impact of that versus a flyer or postcard or [...]
And Rogers announces their iPhone rates. I like one of the comments over at Engadget…
so basically you’re paying $40/month for 400 MB in Canada, vs. $30/month for unlimited data in the US. that yawning chasm between the two countries is the sound of Ted Rogers laughing at your stupidity for buying this device, and on [...]
When you search for a book on-line that data is captured and funneled to the website inventory manager. When you search for a book in-store (or ask a bookseller — the scandal) that request is lost forever. Until now.
The Indigo Chapters 2008 annual report (PDF) lists a new smart kiosk as one of cornerstones to [...]