On April 1st General Motors closed the plant that it jointly ran with Toyota. Did you know Toyota and GM had a joint partnership? Me neither. I am glad This American Life took an hour to tell me about it. The story relates to publishing in two ways: It chronicles a company in decline. GM [...]
Updated X3 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]