«The «Big Change» era in
trade book publishing ended about four years ago» by Mike Shatzkin at The Shatzkin Files — July 11, 2016
Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company and author of a recent, highly informative blog post titled «The «Big Change» era in
trade book publishing ended about four years ago.»
Not exact matches
And yet, not quite one year to the day it was announced, Godin is shutting The Domino Project down, offering the awkward explanation that «it was a project, not a lifelong commitment to being a publisher of
books,» instead of, perhaps, admitting that
publishing is harder than it looks if you want to swim at the deep
end of the
trade pool in the middle of a dramatic transition, as he obliquely acknowledges in many of his noteworthy takeaways, especially this one:
A Prediction: Since the focus this year for WMG
Publishing is getting more and more
books into
trade paper, WMG
Publishing will be making far more money from
trade paperbacks by the
end of 2012 than from the
books published electronically.
Your choice of
trade or self -
publishing will influence your ability to follow - up your original
book with a workbook, and future back -
end profit opportunities.
Since the early - to - mid 1980's improvements in computer hardware and software have radically changed the throughput of
published materials from author to reader... It's ludicrous that to be involved in the technology
end of the
book industry, you need to be a member of five or six
trade organizations.
Bookselling is the commercial
trading of
books, the retail and distribution
end of the
publishing process.