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Paul Riccardi

HarperStudio: A New Book Publishing Model That Pays Authors 50-50 | Fast Company - 0 views

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    HarperStudio's new way of doing business with authors and promoting their works.
arnie Grossblatt

Holiday Book Prices Plunge, as Wal-Mart and Amazon Scuffle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “If readers come to believe that the value of a new book is $10, publishing as we know it is over,” said David Gernert, Mr. Grisham’s literary agent. “If you can buy Stephen King’s new novel or John Grisham’s ‘Ford County’ for $10, why would you buy a brilliant first novel for $25? I think we underestimate the effect to which extremely discounted best sellers take the consumer’s attention away from emerging writers.”
  • “You have a choke point where millions of writers are trying to reach millions of readers,” Mr. Petrocelli said, “but if it all has to go through a narrow funnel where there are only four or five buyers deciding what’s going to get published, the business is in trouble.”
arnie Grossblatt

The Publishing Industry is Thriving | - 3 views

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    Why is publishing doing better than other "culture Industries"
arnie Grossblatt

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Why publishers should give away ebooks - 2 views

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    Fascinating read on bundling print books with free e-books.
arnie Grossblatt

Timeliness in mind, Princeton press plans to roll out new book in e-chapters | Inside H... - 1 views

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    Clever approach to marketing an e-book
Valentina Moreno

Penguin Launches E-book Library Lending Pilot Program - 1 views

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    Wondering three things - 1) Is this enough? 2) Will the remaining Big 6 publishers follow suit? 3) What are the lending terms?
arnie Grossblatt

U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs - Research - The Chronicl... - 1 views

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    Greedy publishers?
arnie Grossblatt

What Is a Career in Publishing? Recruiting the Talent We Need for the 21st Ce... - 6 views

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    This is few months old, but still a worthwhile read on the state of the job market and planning for a career in publishing.
arnie Grossblatt

The Real Cost of College Textbooks - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.
arnie Grossblatt

In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks - 0 views

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    Textbook pricing continues to be an issue, and open source alternatives gain attention. 
arnie Grossblatt

Kickstartup - Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tok... - 0 views

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    Financing a publishing project by crowdsourcing. 
arnie Grossblatt

11 Small Publishers We Love For Their Independent Spirit - 2 views

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    More on the small press and innovation theme.
arnie Grossblatt

Nearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Sto... - 3 views

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    The number of tech titles available on Kindle gets a big bump. But the market is still broken in many respects.  Read about the difficulties in formatting for Kindle and the inability to get publisher updates through Amazon (or Apple for EPUB books).
arnie Grossblatt

Books After Amazon - 3 views

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    A pretty damning article about Amazon
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    Interesting read on the disruptive role of Amazon in book publishing.
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