Publishing is Dead, Long Live Publishing August 24, 2010 | DBW | 7 By Shiv Singh | “Seth Godin believes in the power of his brand and is betting everything on it.”
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.”
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: Chief Executive Optimist August 3, 2010 | DBW | 0 By Sue Lange | “Digital publishing is either going to expand the audience for books, or it’s going to destroy publishing as we know it.”
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.”
eBook Revolution: Random House vs. The Jackal July 26, 2010 | Richard Curtis | 2 By Richard Curtis | “Publishers are loath to sue authors (or the widows and children of authors).”
Dan Blank: Putting the “Social” in Social Media July 6, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 2 By Marian Schembari | “If all you care about is protecting an established business model, then you are missing the point.”
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.”
Radical Mediation: Agent, Evolve Thyself! June 29, 2010 | DBW | 33 By Jason Allen Ashlock | “There is a lot of slack in publishing these days, and agents are picking up most of it.”
Agents Need to Develop Alternative Models June 25, 2010 | DBW | 7 By Jane Friedman | “Agents need to be empowered and given room to innovate as much as the authors.”
Are Agents Due For a Raise? June 25, 2010 | DBW | 4 By Victoria Strauss | “How would publishing change if agenting moved from commission-based payment to billable hours?”
Ron Hogan: Putting the Reader First June 16, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 2 By Marian Schembari || “I am confident that there are publishing companies forward-thinking enough to be responsive to communities of readers.”
Blurring the Lines Between Fiction and Reality June 1, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 1 By Marian Schembari || “Fresh ideas certainly beat annoying the world with friend requests and promotional tweets.”
Debbie Stier: Publishing’s Optimist Prime June 1, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 3 By Marian Schembari || “I am inspired by people who make stuff happen… This is definitely an exciting time.”
Kate Rados: Digital Ninja, Gadget Geek May 21, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 0 By Marian Schembari || “I was lucky enough, and ninja-nerd enough, to pounce on the opportunity.”
Joseph Phillip Illidge: A Different Kind of Social April 29, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 0 By Marian Schembari || “Being able to express myself under fictional guises allows me to comment on anything I want to, but the face isn’t me.”
Gretchen Rubin: Social Media Happiness for Authors April 26, 2010 | DBW | 10 By Joe Dolce || “Publishers don’t have the time to think about it; and a lot of authors don’t know what to ask for.”
Why Don’t Publishers Market ALL of Their Books? April 23, 2010 | DBW | 4 By Jane Friedman || “Everyone in publishing acknowledges the system is not ideal. It is in fact broken.”
Transmedia Requires New Breed of Writers, Publishers April 19, 2010 | DBW | 4 By Alison Norrington || “For transmedia novelists (and publishers) to retain creative control will require more than a repurposing of content.”
Laura Dawson: Metadata Evangelist April 12, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 4 By Marian Schembari || “I’m loving the recognition that identifiers and metadata are important marketing tools!”
OpenSky Seeks to Add Value to Author Platforms April 7, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 2 By Marian Schembari || “Open up shop and recommend/sell your favorite crafty products; make some more money; write another book.”
Glue Offers Authors an Alternative to Amazon March 18, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 5 By Marian Schembari || “Adaptive Blue’s Firefox browser add-on, Glue, has been downloaded an impressive 2.4 million times and counting.”
Ryan Chapman, Marketing Optimist March 12, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 2 By Marian Schembari || “The approach for each author must be unique; there’s also a lot of misinformation out there.”
Pablo Defendini, Catalyst and Innovator February 22, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 1 By Marian Schembari || “I love that books and publishing are becoming fodder for dinner table conversation again.”
The New Farm System: From Blog to Book February 12, 2010 | DBW | 16 By Iris Blasi || Not everything from the web works; “It takes more art and timing to get it right than you might think.”
Don Linn, Optimistic Book Lover February 12, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 1 By Marian Schembari || “If you’re a traditional business, you have to manage your old business while transitioning to the new.”
Jane Friedman, Publisher February 5, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 3 By Marian Schembari || “With changing business models and an enormous amount of online opportunities, what’s the best advice?”
The Changing Agent-Author Relationship February 2, 2010 | DBW | 5 By Jane Friedman || “We have this commission model, but if I am offering a fair service for a fair price, fine.”
Tomorrow’s Book Contract February 2, 2010 | DBW | 2 By Jane Friedman || “Splitting the rights sounds tasty, but that would push down the e-book price since that rights holder has no stake in the print version of the book.”
Back-Loaded Book Deals: The Biggest Bright Spot in Publishing’s Future? February 1, 2010 | DBW | 4 By Jane Friedman || “Publishing is much more collaborative and transparent now than it was even 10 years ago.”
