Daily Archives: September 23, 2010
Blockbuster’s Lesson For Print Publishing
Blockbuster Bankruptcy Shows Danger of Being Inflexible In Digital Age If you want to see people stomping on and spitting on a company they utterly detest, go read the Comments there. They speak volumes about why this country is in … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, Friction, Marketing, Writers
Books: 1901
Click = big Source: American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
Filed under Books: General
Alfred A. Knopf, 1922
Three-quarter-length portrait of Alfred A. Knopf, a publisher, sitting with one arm resting on a table with books displayed on it in a bookstore in Chicago, Illinois. Source: American Memory Project, Library of Congress
Filed under Books: General, Bookstores
Publishing Fiddles While Print 451s
Everyone’s screaming at us that book publishing is dying and we’re LOL’ing with each other. And why not dammit?! Worked for Nero…Thu Sep 23 14:25:04 via webDan FranklinDigitalDanCanon Wikipedia: Nero: According to Tacitus, the population searched for a scapegoat and … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow
Another Example Of Banking Gangsterism!
Man’s home sold out from under him in foreclosure mistake When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home last December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclosed on … Continue reading
Filed under Collapse, Pottersville
Bookstores Now Selling To The Rats
I don’t think print publishing will know what the hell to make of this — E-book sales begin to cannibalise print — so I will interpret it for them. Sales of printed romance books have fallen for the first time … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, Bookstores, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General
Welcome To The Future. Now Die!
With all the talk talk talk about “shareholder value,” the shareholders wind up holding a bag of nothing now. The bondholders get the company. How can I feel any sympathy for a bunch of Suits who ignored, laughed at, and … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow
