Books' Prices and Writing's Value

As painful as pricing issues may be in the marketplace and in authors’ efforts to put together a living, the real question is what happens in the public mind when pricing goes through the floor? Read More

IDPF at BEA: Tension Around the Proposed W3C Merger

Going…going… At what may well have been the last International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) conference, a proposed merger of IDPF and the World Wide Web Consortium cast a chill in Chicago. Read More

At Chicago’s BEA-Lite: A Meaningful Discussion on Publishers and Authors

On the show floor, the crowds and booths are down. In one unusually frank exchange, however, this BEA finds traction on issues of publishers and writers. Read More

A New Global Ebook Report on a Mercurial World Market

BEA’s’ Director of International Affairs Rüdiger Wishenbart’s new Global Ebook Report cites continental Europe’s ebooks “stalling even earlier” than in the US and UK. Read More

#IDPFDigiCon Preview: A Few Words With Michael Healy

Content today is ‘born digital, transmitted digitally, used digitally, consumed digitally,’ and a leading player in the field plans his address at IDPF’s conference at BEA to highlight some of the hotspots in a world teeming with copyright issues. Read More

Chicago’s BEA BookCon Adds Memoirist-Comedian Tig Notaro

Not only BookExpo America but also its consumer-facing BookCon will be in Chicago in May, trading New York’s Javits Center for the McCormick Place complex. Read More

Canada Calling: BitLit and Shelfie at Three Years

  By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Publishing Perspectives Editor-in-Chief “It’s been nearly 3 years since I first picked up a phone and started calling publishers.” And Peter Hudson, founding CEO of BitLit in Vancouver, is in a good position to tell newcomers to the publishing startup scene what to expect: “Looking back, I understand why everybody I… Read More

‘Putting Readers First’ At BEA: Gatekeepers, Curators, And ‘Too Many Books’

‘Readers Are The Power Brokers Who Matter Most’ Readers decide. Readers come first, as they are the primary filters. Imprints, choices, and selections should really mean something. Brand can’t be faked in this area. Publish fewer books; publish better books. The concept has begun gaining traction as it dawns on many of us that “discoverability”… Read More