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How many more times for BEA?
I went to my first ABA (American Booksellers Association) Convention in Washington, DC in 1970. I had just written “The View from Section 111″ for Prentice-Hall, about the New York Knicks’ first...
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BEA will be a shame to lose, but can it be saved?
Dinner Saturday night. 12 of us. Three spouses who had no particular interest in the BEA. Eight of us with one interest or another in the book business, but no possibility of personally being an...
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But what if it gets really easy to deliver apps or enhanced ebooks?
This is an unusually brief post today, but some worthy observations don’t require long explanations. I wrote nearly 18 months ago about my concern that publishers’ interest in enhanced ebooks would...
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The future of bookstores is the key to understanding the future of publishing
One of the subjects we have been probing for a long time is the inevitable impact that increased purchasing of books online would have on the shelf space at retail and what that would mean to trade...
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Frankfurt is still vast, but it seems to be getting smaller
I’ve spent more than half-a-year of my life in Frankfurt, one week at a time. My first Fair was 1976 so this would have been my 39th if I attended them all. I think I missed two, so that’s 37. I love...
View ArticleTransformation of companies and the book industry itself are not just 21st...
Company transformation is a major theme at this year’s Digital Book World conference. By “transformation” we mean substantial changes in a company’s business model or core competencies or revenue...
View ArticlePublishing and Digital Change: The Implications for the Book Business in...
Good morning. I hope to give you a few things to think about today. And maybe even things to act on without much further thought. We’re going to start with a view of what digital technology could mean...
View ArticleEnd 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 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 ArticleStay Ahead of the Shift: What Publishers Can Do to Flourish in a...
Stay Ahead Of The Shift View more OpenOffice presentations from idealogical. Shown above are the slides which articulate the major points and ideas in the speech. Below are some video clips and the...
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