Comments on: The Book-Publishing Industry is Dead, Long Live Book Publishers http://sellingchange.com/discussion/book-publishing-industry-is-dead/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brett Clay http://sellingchange.com/discussion/book-publishing-industry-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Brett Clay Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:12:10 +0000 http://sellingchange.com/?p=362#comment-73 Seth Godin to Self-Publish: http://on.wsj.com/afSsHt (Wallstreet Journal) Straight from the horse's mouth (Seth's blog): http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/moving-on.html Is this another nail in the traditional publisher's coffin? Power is definitely getting redistributed in the book publishing industry. The question remains: is the pie getting bigger or smaller? What do you think? Seth Godin to Self-Publish: http://on.wsj.com/afSsHt (Wallstreet Journal)

Straight from the horse’s mouth (Seth’s blog):
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/moving-on.html

Is this another nail in the traditional publisher’s coffin? Power is definitely getting redistributed in the book publishing industry. The question remains: is the pie getting bigger or smaller? What do you think?

]]> By: Brett Clay http://sellingchange.com/discussion/book-publishing-industry-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Brett Clay Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:46:54 +0000 http://sellingchange.com/?p=362#comment-62 Good point, Karen! Clint Greenleaf made the same comment in his video interview above. The comment about condensed highlights was in the context of non-fiction business books. Condensed highlights would defeat the purpose of a great novel, where the value is in the art of the story-telling itself. That would be like looking at a great painting through binoculars, or listening only to the first four notes of a great song. Thanks for the clarification! Good point, Karen! Clint Greenleaf made the same comment in his video interview above.

The comment about condensed highlights was in the context of non-fiction business books. Condensed highlights would defeat the purpose of a great novel, where the value is in the art of the story-telling itself. That would be like looking at a great painting through binoculars, or listening only to the first four notes of a great song.

Thanks for the clarification!

]]> By: karen wester newton http://sellingchange.com/discussion/book-publishing-industry-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-61 karen wester newton Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:28:01 +0000 http://sellingchange.com/?p=362#comment-61 You make some interesting points, especially about the subscription idea, but it's difficult to take this post seriously with this part in it: "Many people just want the condensed highlights and prefer not to wade through 200 pages of verbiage written simply to fill out the book. How soon will 20 to 50-page ebooks priced at $0.99 be the norm?" A work of 20-50 pages is called a short story or a novella, and if anything short ficiton is languishing much worse than the book trade. If ebooks can help short ficiton, that would be great, but the experience of the two forms of reading is not the same. People are snapping up Stieg Larsson's trilogy at a tremendous rate, and the first book is 600 pages. You make some interesting points, especially about the subscription idea, but it’s difficult to take this post seriously with this part in it:

“Many people just want the condensed highlights and prefer not to wade through 200 pages of verbiage written simply to fill out the book. How soon will 20 to 50-page ebooks priced at $0.99 be the norm?”

A work of 20-50 pages is called a short story or a novella, and if anything short ficiton is languishing much worse than the book trade. If ebooks can help short ficiton, that would be great, but the experience of the two forms of reading is not the same. People are snapping up Stieg Larsson’s trilogy at a tremendous rate, and the first book is 600 pages.

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