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The bookseller.com has posted the complete text of a speech given by Victoria Barnsley, chief executive of HarperCollins UK, entitled “Media’s last diehard?” I am posting this in a hurry today so what follows is my reaction in brief.
Barnsley offers some tantalizing info on the Bookarmy.com project (a link to the beta), “the secret weapon, [...]
What She Said Wasn’t That Bad
Both Mathew Ingram and TechCrunch came down hard on Tracy Chevalier — and the Society of Authors — for saying writers wanted to chuck the old business models and adopt new ones. Arrington and Ingram know a luddite when they see one. Chevalier qualifies in their minds for pointing out [...]
With the latest cover story (issue 16.03) Wired continues to poke the sleeping giant that is the publishing industry. Will publishers wake up? Or will they continue to lazily swat, like a pestering fly, at Wired’s braintrust?
Hello Captain Obvious
In the The Long Tail, Wired’s Chris Anderson stated that profitability in publishing was about backlist. Well [...]