The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
July 20th, 2011
Borders is dead. The post-mortems abound. Some blame management. Some blame fate. Most just muse. The first Borders store was launched forty years ago by brothers Tom and Louis Borders while studying at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2009 Borders had sales of $2.8 billion from over 500 stores and nearly 20,000 staff. I’d call…
April 9th, 2011
An informative article in today’s Globe & Mail highlights the plight of Canada’s largest book chain, Chapters/Indigo (formally, Indigo Books & Music Inc.). Unlike in the United States, Chapters/Indigo is already the “last man standing” among bookselling conglomerates. It’s like Barnes & Noble would appear after it ate Borders. As with many flagship corporations Chapters/Indigo…
December 12th, 2010
I list my books and reports on a separate page. Most of my writing appears on this site. These are articles published elsewhere, including Publishers Weekly and Publishing Research Quarterly. Book Publishing Startups in the U.S. 2022, Publishers Weekly, November 18, 2022. Frankfurt Spotlight: How Book Publishing Startups Have Fared, Publishers Weekly, October 17, 2022. Ingram Backs…
December 12th, 2010
March 15, 2018 The explosion of self-publishing has flooded the web with a great many sites explaining how it works, and discuss the ebook industry at length. AuthorEarnings is a great source of insight and analysis. Follow Paul Biba, on Twitter @paulkbiba to get notice of his weekly “eBook, eLibrary, eMuseum and ePublishing news compilation for week.”…
December 19th, 2009
Gosh I do write an awful lot about eBooks, but it is the flavor-of-the-year, not just for book publishers of course, but for readers (and publishers) everywhere. Always controversial, it never fails to “make good copy,” as they used to say in the newspaper business. O’Reilly, the company; Tim O’Reilly, the founder; Andrew Savikas, a…