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State of the Industry

Work with a Publisher!

May 22, 2010

I love Tom Gauld:

It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that following the departure of founder and publisher Bob Miller to Workman Publishing last month, HarperCollins imprint HarperStudio is going to close after just 2 years in business. As a publisher, HarperStudio garnered a remarkable amount of media attention for offering authors lower advances in exchange for a greater [...]

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The Peanut Gallery

February 13, 2010

Having written a couple of things this week about what publishers should be doing, Don Linn has a timely post at his blog Bait ‘n’ Beer on exactly why such thoughts are usually wide of the mark: [N]ot all publishers are the same. While there are some commonalities among the hundreds of publishers, there are [...]

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Too Many Books

February 2, 2010

“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.” “Too many books” is one old complaint. Historian Adrien Baillet wrote that in [...]

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Predictions

January 8, 2010

I really don’t know why smart people make predictions. Surely one of the lessons of the last couple of years is that experts are actually very, very bad at making predictions — or rather, they are good at making predictions, just not very good at making accurate ones, which is, perhaps, even worse. And didn’t [...]

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