November 13th, 2013
Visuals Signal the Change in Publishing
The Wall Street Journal offers a relatively simple but very powerful photographic feature looking at “Before and After Typhoon Haiyan” in the Philippines.
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November 10th, 2013
Fixing Publishing is a Group Effort
I caught a tweet by Joe Wikert (@jwikert) today: “A terrific summary of the challenges startups encounter with publishers, by @arthurattwell http://t.co/zccraSsg6Y“
October 29th, 2013
Largest Publishers Supply Less Than 8% of Ebook Titles; Achieve 50% of Ebook Sales
If you read this entire blog entry your eyes are very likely to glaze over: it contains an overload of stats & calculations. So let me first offer an Executive Summary:
October 23rd, 2013
Addicted to Change
Like most tech-dominated industries publishing is addicted to change. This addiction even has a scientific name: neophilia, in contrast with neophobia, a condition more traditionally associated with publishing (I chuckled when I read in the Wikipedia entry: “Neophobia is a common finding in aging animals…”).
September 16th, 2013
4,000 Tweets
The other night I noticed that I’d hit 4,000 tweets. Never thought I’d do it. I signed up for Twitter both reluctantly and cynically. I thought it was just a compressed means of notifying the world of what I’d had for breakfast. I already used Facebook to spread that important news. Now with three years…