Technology: Now It's Personal. Thinking strategically about how technology impacts what we do as publishers.This speech was conducted several weeks ago for a group of Pace University students in the publishing business program. It is a long speech but traces some of my business experience and history.“Technology: It’s Personal” is the general theme of this commentary. Though long anticipated, this...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
From CCC:First introduced at the 2011 London Book Fair, the “Great Debate” made its North American debut earlier today at the 27th Annual IBPA Publishing University! Four leading industry pundits argued for and against the resolution: “Authors and readers are all that matter. Publishers will soon be irrelevant.” Taking their sides were Rudy Shur, Publisher of Square One; Richard Nash, founder of...
Monday, May 30, 2011
Patriot Act is Extended for another Four Years (LJ)The extension leaves unchanged Section 215 (also known as the "library records provision"), which has always been a serious concern to the library community. Under the provision the FBI can ask a federal court for access to "any tangible thing"---including library records---relevant to a terrorist threat. "ALA is more than disappointed in the...
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Long article/interview with Pete Townshend (Intelligent Life):The Who as we know them came into being in 1964, and soon became the most powerful, iconic and humorous emblem of the Mod movement. But their scope would extend far beyond a fashionable subculture. On stage, they were all you could hope for in a rock band: brutally arresting, unnervingly unpredictable and blisteringly loud. Then as...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Auckland and The Big I: March 1971Another weekly image from the family archive.We lived in Auckland, NZ between 1969 and 1973 at the Intercontinental which is the large building in the center of this photo. Taken in March 1971, you can imagine Auckland has changed significantly since then and now resembles Seattle...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
A good show day and, while I left as the cleaning staff arrived, a long day but mostly a day of boredom. The same conversations about the same problems spoken by the same people.At one session I went to neighbor of the blog Bruce Lubin admitted that "digital is a pain in the ass" and to 'publishers of a certain age' there's a tendency to have some twenty year old take on the digital stuff. But,...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Publishers have been known to be a bitchy lot but this year most of the bitching on day one seemed to be focused on the intermittent and or ineffectual wireless access on site at Javits. Perhaps the LA Times' Jacket Copy blog put it best: With so many writers, the 3G clogs like the 405 -With New York's Javits...
Monday, May 23, 2011
BookExpo hadn't even started before news that Larry Kirshbaum, was taking up a role with Amazon as their head of publishing dropped like the proverbial pin. Will B&N, which is rapidly growing their eBook and publishing business, adopt a similar approach? Meanwhile Kobo announced a new reader this afternoon...
From the NYTimes, Recent best-seller lists for magazines on the Nook Color bear this out. Magazine top sellers include US Weekly, Shape, Women’s Health and Every Day with Rachael Ray. Men’s magazines like Maxim and Men’s Health rounded out the top 20 late last week, but they were the outliers. On the surface, the reason for the strong performance of female-oriented publications on the...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The financial times is reporting that on Tuesday Nature publishing will announce an experimental eTextbook offering pricing an electronic textbook at $49 for lifetime usage including frequent updates to the content. More from the FT:The inaugural textbook in this new programme, Principles of Biology, will be used by three California State University campuses beginning this autumn. Gerry Hanley, senior...
MediaWeek (V4, N21): End of World Edition - An Essay on Privacy, Books & Marketing, Libraries + More
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed an essay on privacy from law educator Daniel J. Solove: Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (Chronicle):Most attempts to understand privacy do so by attempting to locate its essence—its core characteristics or the common denominator that links together the various things we classify under the rubric of "privacy." Privacy, however, is too complex...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Hanging Chickens, Chinatown New York 2007Another weekly image from the family archive. This image is from Grand Street in Manhattan not that long ago. Walking through this part of town is like entering a different environment entirely although one that is very familiar to anyone who has visited Hong Kong. In...
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