End of General Trade Publishing Houses (Completely Retold)
At BEA last June, I unveiled a formulation I am going to reprise for you today, which is that General Trade Publishing Houses don’t “map” into the world we’re going to see develop in the 21st century....
View ArticleKeynote Remarks: Publishing in the Digital Age
This is what’s happening now. Almost all successful consumer media companies in the 20th century had two characteristics: they were horizontal in their content reach — that is, they were broad — and...
View ArticleThe Digital State of Play in the US
Good morning. I have accepted the challenge of trying to update you in 15 minutes on how digital technology is affecting book sales and marketing in the US. That means I’ll be talking fast, leaving a...
View ArticleThe Future of Books for Publishers and Booksellers
Good day. I want to start out by thanking Olaf Winslow and the Danish booksellers for inviting me to your lovely city to talk to you today about the future of books for publishers and booksellers. You...
View ArticleWhere the Web Is Taking Us: The Inevitable Future and the Publisher’s Role In It
Good afternoon. And thank you for the opportunity to give a version of my “End of General Trade Publishing Houses” speech to a room with no big general trade publishing houses in it, unless they...
View ArticleWhat I Would Have Said in London, Part 2
This is the 2nd of a 4-part post spelling out what I would have said if I had appeared at the Annual General Meeting of the UK Publishers Association on Wednesday, April 28, and not been cancelled by a...
View ArticleWe’re getting SaaS-y, going Hollywood, and starting to plan Digital Book...
It is hard to believe that we’re starting to plan the fourth annual Digital Book World conference, which will be held January 16-17, 2013 at the Hilton in New York City. But we are. The first DBW was...
View ArticleThe totality of the relationship is what matters
Like a marriage, relationships between people and companies are seldom made or broken on the back of one transaction or one kind of transaction. They are bigger and more complicated than that. That...
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