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The unit of appreciation and the unit of sale

My professional background —  indeed, most of my life that isn’t family, friends, baseball, and politics — is trade publishing: the publishing that is intended for consumers and which got its name...

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But what if it gets really easy to deliver apps or enhanced ebooks?

This is an unusually brief post today, but some worthy observations don’t require long explanations. I wrote nearly 18 months ago about my concern that publishers’ interest in enhanced ebooks would...

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The subscription model for ebooks hasn’t emerged yet, but it will

From the beginning of Digital Change Thinking Time, which for me goes back to the mid-1990s, “subscription” has been high on the list of future expectations. That’s natural. The subscription model has...

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Publishers Launch Frankfurt will focus on data and retailers that every...

Our Publishers Launch Conferences venture is doing two shows in Frankfurt: a full-day “eBooks Around the World” program on Monday, October 10 and our first conference dedicated to children’s book...

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Should trade publishers start ditching their B2B imprints for a B2C world?

I spent last Friday at the On Copyright 2012 conference staged by my clients at Copyright Clearance Center. CCC is an organization dedicated to generating revenue for content creators from what is...

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Getting Mark Coker right this time and agreeing with him up to a point

On Tuesday, for the first time in the five years I have been writing this blog, I did a post I would like to take back. (But in the interest of the public record, and because there were several...

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Export sales is one of the few areas of predictable growth for book publishers

For a client meeting last week, I was shown a chart that came from Bookstats of channel revenue for publishers. Bookstats is the recent (and now no longer) partnership between the AAP and BISG...

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