On the Scientific American blog last month, Alex Wild posted a brief, useful review of…
Author: Brian O'Leary
Untested assumptions
Yesterday I wrote a post about how "untested assumptions block learning". In it, I included…
A bit of restraint
If I were asked today to tell you my business philosophy, it would probably go…
Challenging front list
A few weeks ago, Publishers Weekly noted that Gone Girl was about to drop from…
Big data starts here
After posting a summary of Johanna Vondeling's "top ten trends shaping the future of publishing",…
Admirable and unnoticed
At Booknet Canada’s Tech Forum last March, Dan Wagstaff responded to part of a presentation…
Publishing outcomes
ALM, the legal information successor to American Lawyer Media, recently announced that it was eliminating…
Scale models
At the start of July, Penguin and Random House completed their merger and began operating…
Asiana Flight 214
Earlier this month I returned to the topic of unpaid internships, making the case that…
Selling fewer containers
After posting a summary of Johanna Vondeling's "top ten trends shaping the future of publishing",…