There was an interesting article in the NY Times Business Section this week about how e-books can/might/do change business models for publishers — with a focus mainly on the economics of slashing twelve bucks or so off the cost of a new hardcover by putting it on an e-reader. “At a glance,” writes Times resident [...]
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On Drinking Networking
February 24th, 2010 5 Comments
Of course, everybody knows that the AWP annual conference (being held this year in Denver, CO, if you haven’t heard) is all about making connections with other people in the industry, and hearing great authors speak, and discovering wonderful new journals that you’d otherwise never come across. But occasionally, at the end of a long [...]
Tags: Andrew · author readings · Brooks · networking · publishing industry
On National Character, Pt. 2
January 24th, 2010 No Comments
Coincidentally, a few days after I wrote my post comparing British and American book covers last month, I went home to Britain for the holidays — and was struck by another subtle but (to me, anyway) interesting difference between the publishing industry in the two countries: reading in Britain is a lot more “lowbrow” than [...]
Tags: Andrew · bookstores · publishing industry
On National Character
December 19th, 2009 1 Comment
It’s your favorite snarky vocab curmudgeon’s birthday tomorrow — and as a premature gift from my girlfriend last night I got a copy of Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, by Tristram Hunt.
We saw the book in a store in Montreal a few weeks ago and I thought it looked great (I don’t [...]
Tags: Andrew · book design · books · publishing industry
The Worst of Times: A Guest Post by Alum TJ Dietderich
November 4th, 2009 No Comments
I came to New York about a year and a half ago to start working at Planned Television Arts, an independent PR firm specializing in books. In that short time, we’ve seen a lot of changes. The economy has gone from bad to worse. The publishing industry has been hemorrhaging jobs. We all know someone [...]
Tags: Alum Month · Guest Blogger of the Week · jobs · networking · publishing industry · TJ Dietderich
On Literature By Committee
October 28th, 2009 1 Comment
I have to admit that, reading Chris’s post from yesterday about “crowdsourcing” literature, my initial reaction was: UGH. What could possibly be worse than a publishing industry dictated entirely by the majority of book-buyers? We’d end up reading two hundred different Da Vinci Codes each year, and poor Dave Eggers would be pretty much out [...]
Tags: Andrew · books · getting published · nonfiction · publishing industry
Crowdsourcing Through Uncertainty in Publishing
October 27th, 2009 No Comments
“Anybody out there want to read about the history of Spam? How about Weird Sports? Anybody?”
Tags: Boston Book Festival · Chris · crowdsourcing · internet · jeff howe · publishing industry · volunteer
Boston Book Festival
October 20th, 2009 No Comments
Above photo courtesy of A. www.viajar24h.com from Flickr Creative Commons
Hey Folks, don’t forget that the Boston Book Festival is this Saturday in Copley Square, 10 am-6pm. Check out the website for a full schedule of events and to see when your must-see authors will be presenting at http://www.bostonbookfest.org/index.php/events/
Tags: books · Boston · Boston Book Festival · emerson MFA · nonfiction · publishing industry · writers · writing · writing process
On Beasts
September 30th, 2009 No Comments
There was an article in the New York Times this week about how The Daily Beast (of Emerson is the most dangerous school in America fame) is planning to launch their own imprint with Perseus in December, called, appropriately enough, Beast Books.
The Times explains:
On a typical publishing schedule, a writer may take a year or [...]
Tags: Andrew · books · freelancing · getting published · publishing industry · This Week in Publishing
How ‘Free’ Textbooks Change the Business
September 7th, 2009 No Comments
…the world-wide availability of the quality free material will create an audience large enough so that if 1 percent of that audience pays for the ‘premium’ services…the revenue from that 1 percent will support the free services, even drive a profit.
Tags: Chris · Free · open source · publishing · publishing industry · textbook
