Personanondata

Re-post from March 28,2008 Trouble at Mill. Manufacturing of old had it that the mill owner owned the means of production and the mill wor...

With the imminent crash of Borders into bankruptcy I was reminded of this post from December 3rd, 2008. Travel up Route 17 in northern New J...

First posted May 18 2008. Frank would have been 95 on Sunday Frank Sinatra toured Australia in 1974 and they just wouldn’t leave him a...

Repost Friday and this post originally appeared on October 20th, 2008. Since I am addressing this same meeting on Tuesday I thought I would...

Originally posted June 24th, 2008 Large publishers like Elsevier, Macmillan and Kluwer spent the past 20-30 years or so consolidating journa...

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 Many pundits pontificate on the demise of publishing (myself included and some others I could mention...

As I close out the year and wish everyone best wishes for the new year, I have compiled a summary of what I think were my more interesting p...

It would be a shame if the opportunity to create a unified (and uniform) bibliographic database itemizing the copyright status of our collec...

Most people in our industry recognise the irony inherent in discussing brand management in the publishing industry. Every aspiring author an...

A change, equivalent to the launch of the mass market paperback just took place but did you notice? Months in advance of the expected releas...

According to ISBN official standards, each format of an e-book should be given its own ISBN. This means if a book is sold in mobi-pocket and...

Publishing used to be predictable across generations. Parents read the same books in the same manner as their children and grandchildren. No...

Imagine the lone guy on the periphery minding his stand with only a solitary apparently lost attendee to keep him company once an hour. By s...

As promised Mike Shatzkin for a second time this week. I don't buy a lot of books in bookstores anymore -- I'm an ebook man -- and w...

Mike Shatzkin of The Idea Logical Company asked if I would like to post the following article. He also has another in the wings which I will...

Another big name author has followed the money and moved from his long term publisher. Richard Ford has moved from Knopf to Ecco after 17 ye...

Amazon is buying Audible.com for $300mm: This changes everything. Audible is already a destination site for Audio books (and content) what m...