Cutting off Amazon
Kelly Burdick
The New York Times’ David Streitfeld has a profile of Tulsa-based publisher Educational Development Corporation, which in February pulled its 1,800 children’s books off of Amazon. (A move discussed in… Read more »
The New York Times’ David Streitfeld has a profile of Tulsa-based publisher Educational Development Corporation, which in February pulled its 1,800 children’s books off of Amazon. (A move discussed in… Read more »
Over and over in the Department of Justice suit against Apple and five of the six largest U.S. publishers the defendants are said to be obsessed with one thing: pricing.… 2 / Read more »
Above, two posters spotted in New York advertising May Day festivities connected to Occupy Wall Street. (The poster on top is hanging in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the other in the… 2 / Read more »
Which countries are most loyal to the printed book? R.R. Bowker’s “Global eBook Monitor” study (as summarized here by the Digital Book World blog, and in the above Bowker chart)… Read more »
Mark Twain’s famous quip about the reports of his death being greatly exaggerated can be uttered by the publishing industry with a certain satisfaction this morning, according to an Association of… Read more »
Romenesko gets new details on a regular report issued by Howard Polskin’s “one-man research firm” The Tab Farm, which charts what passengers are reading on New York’s subways. (Or at least… 3 / Read more »
Writing in the Financial Times, John Lanchester—the author of the novel Capital—asks why it is that so few novelists and poets tackle banking and finance: You can assemble an entire… 10 / Read more »
Last week Independent Publishers Group CEO Curt Matthews wrote a blog post titled “What Should an E-book Cost?” Like most attempts to quantify the financial costs and benefits of publishing, Matthews’… Read more »
On the occasion of a new edition of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist, Publishers Weekly’s Marc Schultz spoke to Epstein on the state of the industry. What major… 1 / Read more »
Salon.com reports that by reducing the amount of content it published in December and January, and by easing its dependence on aggregation, it actually increased its monthly traffic numbers. According… 1 / Read more »