The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
January 1st, 2010
Here at Osborne Manor in West Vancouver on the first day of a new year I stepped outside briefly to listen to the gentle sound of the waves lapping upon the shores of Burrard Inlet. Somehow this reminded me of Mike Shatzkin’s 13 predictions about what 2010 holds for eBooks. I read them on my…
November 20th, 2009
I remember well, back in my days as Program Director at Seybold Seminars, where we all thought: OK, there’s print, and then there’s the web. So print will be repurposed to the web. Of course that was our print-centric viewpoint. It was shared by many. But these days web campaigns are usually planned before print campaigns,…
October 22nd, 2009
Having trouble convincing people to toss their Penguin paperbacks in the garbage and buy a Kindle? I know I sure am. Well Steve Jordan, the prolific author of Encephalopath, apparently a successful self-published eBook author offers, “Instant eBook Promotion: Try These Snappy Phrases on the Nay-Sayers”: “The book of the 21st century is digital.” “E-books…
September 17th, 2009
A subject which receives far too little coverage in the great eBook orgy is just how much is lost in the conversersion from books-on-paper to eBooks in one of the many eBook formats. What is lost: nearly every visual element, from typeface choices to page design. As this May 2009 article on Wired.com states: “Ultimately…
September 15th, 2009
A good follow-up to yesterday’s post about Daniel Menaker’s post on trade book publishing comes from Nathanial Bransford’s popular blog (81 comments so far on the entry). Titled, of course, Will Authors of the Future Need Publishers? Bransford makes several important points. 1. Book sales are off 2.5% for the year as of July, compared to…