November 21st, 2011
In an age of ebooks, do we need the bookstore?
See below for full author details. As book sales plummet and famed shops close, brave entrepreneurs are trying to reinvent the model. Is it too late?
The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
November 21st, 2011
See below for full author details. As book sales plummet and famed shops close, brave entrepreneurs are trying to reinvent the model. Is it too late?
November 21st, 2011
In a word: Plenty. I’ve got an overview of the music business on this site, but it touches only briefly on the vast overlap in the modern evolution of the music business and the book business. It’s a subject that could easily fill a book, but I’ve rarely seen it more than briefly mentioned. I’ve…
April 7th, 2011
On April 5th three musicians celebrated the 100th anniversary of Seattle’s Union Station with a free performance using instruments they made and by utilizing the building’s cavernous interior. This lovely short video was made by The Seattle Times’s Ken Lambert.
November 13th, 2009
This gem from this week’s The Economist: “In the eyes of media executives, the internet is a malevolent vacuum-cleaner, sucking in one business after another.”
January 1st, 2009
I’ve chosen the first day of the new year to inaugurate a series of blogs and essays that I refer to as “The Laws of the Future of Publishing.” The idea came to me last summer in Toronto, in conversation with my wonderful webmaster and web designer, Elia Kanaki. I wanted to try to distill…