Last week, I wrote a post responding to John MacArthur’s op-ed critique of the role…
Publishing Innovation
TL;DR
Although there are plenty of exceptions, I try to keep the length of the posts…
“Always” vs. “sometimes”
A couple of weeks ago, Mathew Ingram wrote about roadblocks to adopting new business models….
A reset button
Last month, The Bookseller reported that Dutch publisher De Arbeiderspers/A W Bruna had decided to…
Lost coastlines
[This post is entirely personal. A special prize goes to anyone who can divine a…
Observing the inevitable
Although I now spend most of my writing time focused on publishing, I once wrote…
Finding enthusiasts
Last month, Book Business featured a story by James Sturdivant that I felt outlines the…
Crashing Amazon
When I was a junior in college, I took a class in computing. In those…
The tension between access and perceived quality
Andrei Hagiu, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, and Julian Wright, an economics professor…
Multi-sided platforms
Andrei Hagiu, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, and Julian Wright, an economics professor…