This week! Books! New decade! RIP to legendary Knopf leader Sonny Mehta, whose influence on the world of literature would be hard to overstate. I particularly liked this quote, spotted by Publishers Lunch: I don’t think you can work in this business without faith or optimism. Reading a manuscript, sensing something special about it, and […]
E-books
Will you ever buy mostly e-books? The results! (2016)
For the 10th consecutive year, I asked people if they could see themselves going mostly paper free. We seem to have settled into a bit of an equilibrium. Ever since 2011, the number of e-book aficionados has hovered between 44% and 49%, but last year there was anomalous reversal down to 40.5%. Interestingly, this year’s […]
Will you ever buy mostly ebooks? (10th annual poll)
Well by golly we made it to ten years of this poll. I have been asking this question every year since 2007, when the Kindle was brand new and the iPad did not yet exist. So. Do you think you’ll ever buy mostly ebooks? Do you already? Caveats, because even ten years in I still […]
Moneyball for book publishers
Way back in 2007, I wrote about what I called the “holy grail” of book publishing: the blockbuster detector. Inspired by both The Wisdom of Crowds and Moneyball, I wondered about the possibility of a tool that could identify undervalued markets and help predict future sales. 2007, mind you, was the era before the Kindle and […]
Will you ever buy mostly e-books? The results!
Has there been a disturbance in the Force? It’s not just The Force Awakens, but for the second consecutive year, e-books have reversed their gains in my poll that asks whether you think you’ll ever buy mostly ebooks. The results! Here are the people who say you can pry paper books out of their cold dead […]
Will you ever buy mostly ebooks? (9th Annual Poll)
Here we are again. I’ve been asking this question once a year since 2007, when the Kindle was an inelegant piece of plastic and the iPad was a glimmer in Steve Jobs’ eye. Will you ever buy mostly e-books? Do you already? Poll below. Caveats to preempt comments I have heard since 2007. Yes, not […]
