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Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
Most books are now sold digitally, categories don’t matter as much, and the majority of physical books are not sold in bookstores, but rather in non-book retail stores like Costco and Walmart that don’t even have categorized shelves.
Zach Obront • The Scribe Method: The Best Way to Write and Publish Your Non-Fiction Book
Italic: leading the revolution in consumer-to-manufacturer (C2M) internet commerce
Byron Lingbyronling.substack.com
In 2005, before the proposition could be tested that Mobi would enable a real e-book market to develop because one format would suit multiple devices, Amazon bought Mobi—which later became the spine of the Kindle format—and took it off the market. Shortly thereafter, neither Amazon nor BN.com was selling e-books.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that, there is no where
Then each book has two kinds of costs: the investments required to publish it at all (author’s advance and what used to be called design and typesetting but which would now be better described as “creating a print-ready file”) and unit production costs, the “paper, presswork, and binding” of the actual printed units. There is virtually no
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Publishers
Dea T. • 4 cards
sure that your clients are continuously blown away.