Got a light?… Just as The Bookseller’s Philip Jones was aptly saying that the publishing industry is “looking at its market by candlelight,” I was reminded that, in fact, book publishing isn’t the only industry suffering this problem: Amazon never releases sales figures for any of the hardware it builds, but that isn’t stopping others from making their best guesses… Read More
It Just Got Even More Expensive To Make Your Book “Visible”
It surprises many outside the business to learn that publishing actually does not know how many books are out there. We don’t know how many books are self-published. We don’t know how many authors are engaging in the marketplace. Imagine the auto industry without its serial numbers, unable to count or identify its cars — that’s… Read More