This year! Books! This will be the last “This Week in Books” of our godforsaken year 2020, and I wanted to take a minute to reflect on the year that was in the book world. While I was recovering from COVID in early April, I interviewed publishing industry sage Mike Shatzkin on the effects the […]
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This Week in Publishing 8/13/10
In!!!!!!!!!! PublishingThisWeek First up, if you are in the San Francisco vicinity I will be on a panel hosted by the good people at GigaOM regarding Disintermediation in Publishing the morning of August 25th. It’s free, the panel I’m on is with the CEO of Smashwords, author Simon Wood, and the Director of Marketing at […]
Editors Becoming Agents
Wanna know one reason it’s tricky being a young agent on the block? Although I don’t have precise statistics, the industry seems to be in contraction mode from an editorial standpoint as companies merge (i.e. Avalon into Perseus, Harcourt and Houghton), others downsize (i.e Thomas Nelson), and as editors are simply let go. This is […]
