Could Bookish Be The Next Big Online Retailer?
Last week saw the launch of Bookish in the US – a new, and frankly bloody stunning book discovery/online retailer (or as I call them,…
Sales, rights and licensing
Blockbuster, HMV, and the Death of the High Street
Last week, I heard someone say they were surprised by the news that Blockbuster had gone into administration – surprised, because they didn’t know Blockbuster…
Lower Ebook Prices Does Not Equal More Readers
Last week saw the declaration by Amazon that the dissolution of agency pricing in the US was a “big win for customer” and that they look…
4 questions for Caroline Crofts, UK Rights Manager for HarperCollins [INTERVIEW]
With Amazon announcing in early September that they were looking at novel serialisation, we got to wondering what goes into getting the content to you,…
Would you sell advertising space in your book, app, or e-book?
Publishers generally don’t sell advertising space. There’s an underlying fear that this will have a negative impact on readers. What is this fear based on…
Sainsobii vs Wamazon: Battle of the Bookseller Titans
Last week, a new alliance between supermarket Sainsbury’s and social reading site aNobii rocked the publishing world. As I’ve said before, aNobii have been ramping…
The ABC of Waterstones: A Bookseller’s ‘Promised Land’
It’s been a big week in the world of Waterstones. Last Monday, we had the shock announcement that they would be hand-selling Kindles – their…
Piracy, Authors and Trust
This week I took some time out from sipping a cup of coffee and hitting ‘send’ on an email, and doing various other publisher-related tasks, and…
