“The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.” New York Times, January 27th, 2009. This is an opening quote from an article about self publishing in the New York Times this week by Motoko Rich about the rise in…
The Friday Project – Overview
The Friday Project is a publishers which was bought by HarperCollins in May 2008 as it teetered on the edge of commercial collapse. Now, just like HarperCollins’ HarperStudios , the London-based independent publishing house, founded by Paul Carr and Clare Christian in June 2004, will operate as a shared profits publisher, with still the possibility…
HarperStudio & Borders Go Non-returnable on Books
We have previously reported on the current struggles of Borders bookstore chain and read with interest a business snippet in this week’s Wall street Journal. It seems HarperStudio titles will now be stocked by Borders on a ‘non-returnable’ basis. as with everything in business – this can be construed in two different ways. HarperStudio would…
HarperStudio’s ’26thstory’ & The Biting Edge
Last week I posted an article on the current state of publishing and the challenges ahead. One of the more innovative publishing imprints is HarperCollins’ HarperStudio. I have been following their blogsite for some time now and always find their posts and views to have a real edge and reality on what is going on…
Publishing Industry – Change or be Damned?
Over the past month, there has been considerable debate about the current state and future of the publishing industry across the internet on writer’s forums and blogsites. Some of the discussion was sparked by Boris Kachka’s recent article in the New York Magazine. A lot of the criticism of Kachka’s article seems to centre on…
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