About Emily Williams

Emily Williams is co-chair of the BISG Rights Subcommittee and a former literary scout who currently works as an independent publishing consultant.

Breaking the Translation Bottleneck

January 3, 2011 | Emily Williams | 0

Emily Williams | “Every other aspect of publishing is being opened up to new models of creation and distribution.”

Agency Abroad and the Limits of Technology

December 31, 2010 | Emily Williams | 0

Emily Williams | “Not even Google could pull off a launch in more than one country at a time.”

Why Dan Franklin Matters

December 20, 2010 | Emily Williams | 1

Emily Williams | “You have to step into the dark a bit, otherwise it’s not worth doing.”

Cyber Monday: Book Subscription Models

December 1, 2010 | Emily Williams | 0

By Emily Williams | “Subscriptions + online shopping are a fabulous way for indies to scale their personal touch; build close ties with loyal readers.”

Indies to Agency Five: Where’s the Love?

November 23, 2010 | Emily Williams | 0

By Emily Williams | “Publishers are not seeing those lost sales because the lift in eBook sales in general masks the disaffection.”

Life at the Bleeding Edge of Collaboration

November 15, 2010 | Emily Williams | 4

By Emily Williams | “Yes, behind this share-and-share-alike doctrine is a real business model.”

Collaborative Communities: Transmedia Evolved

November 5, 2010 | Emily Williams | 5

By Emily Williams | “If you bring your audience in, you are no longer competing against them.”

Iambik: An Innovative, Indie Spin on Audiobooks

October 20, 2010 | Emily Williams | 6

By Emily Williams | “The moment is ripe to match a young, tech-savvy audience with the kind of offbeat fiction published by Iambik’s indie partners.”

If Libraries are Screwed, so are the Rest of Us

October 15, 2010 | Emily Williams | 9

By Emily Williams | “All this is happening as taxpayers are having to decide what municipal services they can live without.”

Local Library, Meet the World Wide Interwebs

September 27, 2010 | Emily Williams | 0

By Emily Williams | “Libraries will have to think about how they’re going to compete with an organization like Starbucks.”

Image Rights Slow Transition from Print to Ebook

September 6, 2010 | Emily Williams | 6

By Emily Williams | “Stripping away the paper form has revealed the true nature of books: they are complicated bundles of copyrights.”

Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future

August 27, 2010 | Emily Williams | 8

By Emily Williams | “Where will ebook rights end up?”

Richard Curtis: eBook Folly Leads to Innovation

August 19, 2010 | Emily Williams | 3

By Emily Williams | “Our revenues have quadrupled in two years. We’re beginning to make a profit and pay substantial royalties.”

Arthur Klebanoff: eBook Veteran, First Mover

August 16, 2010 | Emily Williams | 1

By Emily Williams | “eBooks are good news. There are many more paths to market.”

Sound and Fury: Audiobook vs. Text-to-Speech

August 6, 2010 | Emily Williams | 2

By Emily Williams | “This argument is equivalent to saying that use of Google Translate would infringe on the translation rights of an ebook.”

Scott Waxman: Change Agent, Digital Entrepreneur

July 29, 2010 | Emily Williams | 0

By Emily Williams | “The future, in terms of digital publishing, is not profitable in a lot of cases yet.”

Crossing Borders on Demand

June 30, 2010 | Emily Williams | 8

By Emily Williams | “An alternative to the established business of rights sales: direct, disintermediated access to readers in other countries.”

Old London vs. New Media

April 16, 2010 | Emily Williams | 3

By Emily Williams || “In the houses and at the fairs, the future won’t stay safely at the margins for long.”

Territorial Rights in a World Without Borders

February 27, 2010 | Emily Williams | 6

By Emily Williams || “A chasm opened up between discoverability of titles and the consumer’s ability to buy those titles.”

1	The Great Gatsby \| F. Scott Fitzgerald
	Simon & Schuster \| $4.99
2	The Hit \| David Baldacci
	Hachette \| $8.99
3	Dead Ever After \| Charlaine Harris
	Penguin \| $12.99