Despite this pervasive narrative of the evil overlord milking its underlings for all their worth, Amazon has actually offered some positive
changes in the publishing industry over the last 20 years.
I've seen and experienced many
changes in the publishing industry over these 30 - something years.
Not exact matches
An article
published in yesterday's Financial Times may have given some
in the business community the impression that a great
change is sweeping
over the UK public affairs
industry.
Former senior book
publishing sales and marketing executive Peter Hildick - Smith has been tracking digital
change in the US
publishing industry since 2004, through interviews with
over 250,000 book consumers.
I have worked
in the
publishing industry for
over twenty years, been a
published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance
over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of
change in the
industry, and saw the bottom fall out
in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living
in traditional
publishing disappear.
There's no doubt that the face of the
publishing industry is
changing, and quite possibly that it has
changed more
in the last five years than
over the entire course of its history.
Carl has been experiencing and riding the
changes in the
publishing industry for
over 30 years.
But there's no letup
in the
changes sweeping
over the
publishing industry, and today you've got some great reading
in front of you right now that will help get you up to speed
in no time at all.
E-books are going to majorly
change the
publishing industry in the next 10 years, heck
in the next 20 years well
over 90 % of books will likely be read on digital readers.
Granted, like everything else
in this
industry, this is
changing, slowly... as authors are waking up to the notion that they don't have to sign
over all their rights to get
published.