The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 3rd, 2009
I think it’s important for publishers to recognize a simple fact about where the Interent and the web are today in the United States. Here’s the picture: As you can easily see, as of April of this year, just under 60% of U.S. households had broadband Internet access at home. Canada and many European countries rank higher,…
July 3rd, 2009
HarperCollins Publishers, one of the largest English-language publishers with sales over $1 billion, is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Last fall it launched authonomy, ostensibly a sort of social networking site, where authors could submit 10,000 words or more from an unpublished book (or self-published) and the devoted and literate members of the authonomy…
June 27th, 2009
The title of this blog is the title of a presentation to be made this weekend in Austin, Texas by Michael Murphy, a 27-year veteran of the book publishing business. I read about it on Ron Hogan’s fun blog on MediaBistro today titled, “Making the Future Up As We Go Along.” When I saw that…
June 26th, 2009
As you would perhaps imagine, it’s an enormous task to keep this site relevant and up-to-date. I made a choice years ago: in order to detail the future of publishing I would examine a very wide swathe of industries and influences. To my great surprise, Google Analytics consistently noted that my article on the future…
June 26th, 2009
While researching my previous blog entry, I found another very interesting piece on the U.K. Guardian’s excellent site, more specifically the OrganGrinderBlog, which focuses on digital media. A May 6th entry, covering the FIPP World Magazine Congress, reports on a presentation by Matt Brittin, Google’s UK director. Apparently Google has shared U.S. $5B with publishers…