INDEX // mb » Molly Rant http://indexmb.com Ideas on Publishing Books in Canada (and other attempts to write good) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:35:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 “Book Publishers are The Biggest Hair Pullers in the Entire World” http://indexmb.com/book-publishers-are-the-biggest-hair-pullers-in-the-entire-world/ http://indexmb.com/book-publishers-are-the-biggest-hair-pullers-in-the-entire-world/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:02:11 +0000 mb http://indexmb.com/?p=2025 Two Bloomberg reporters — Joseph Galante and Greg Bensinger – issued a story today saying Amazon’s Kindle pricing strategy could undermine book publishers’ profits. To which I say “New business model meet old business model. Please be friends.”

That is to say the story passed by me on Twitter in a flash.

Picture 74Then I tuned into The Buzz OutLoud podcast from cNet.com. The commentary on the story by Molly Wood, Tom Merritt and crew made my drink come out my nose. It is awesome. Wood — who back in the day worked at O’Reilly — goes on a rant that everybody in the business needs to hear.

To get warmed up she says ” What are publishers not worried about? These people are the biggest hair pullers in the entire world. They are just hand wringing ninnies, non-stop about everything.” And it just gets better after that.

To listen click through to bol.cnet.com or here for the direct download. The conversation starts at 12:20 and wraps up at 17:50.

For the record I own an imaginary t-shirt with an ‘I Heart TheMolly‘ iron-on decal.

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