USA: Portrait of the Book Buyer
A presentation by Bowker's Kelly Gallagher, whom many might know from his days with the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association and involvement in international training, is now on Slideshare. The...
View ArticleLong Tails, Starving Legal Tails, Skinny Pirate's Tails
What impact does illegal file-sharing have on the results predicted by the long tail theory with regard to product sales? A Wired article reports, “Consumers are ... driven to seek the same music in...
View ArticleIndia: Key Market for Business Books
David Wan, president of Harvard Business, just opened a subsidiary in India, and spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the opportunities for publishers in that market today:I see the current slowdown...
View Article"Copyright Asteroid Hurtling Toward Earth, Impact Due 2013"
E-Reads author Richard Curtis writes about the impact that a clause in the U.S. Copyright Act of 1978 may have on the publishing industry, quoting Evan Schnittman, a Vice President of Business...
View ArticleAiming for Direct Sales Channels
Author Erynn Manugm interviews Rebekah Gomez, editor of NavPress' Th1nk Books imprint:These times are challenging for all publishers, including NavPress. Retail publishing in general is declining....
View ArticleFinal Issue of Cook Partners Magazine Now Online
The May/June 2009 issue of Cook Partnersmagazine discusses why Christian publishers need training and where they can get it. Read about marketing Jesus, discover 10 ways to ride out the recession, and...
View ArticleThe Creativity Chemical
New Scientist describes the results of research into N-acetyl-aspartate, a chemical in the brain that is associated with creativity: "People say you have to let your mind wander freely to be creative,"...
View ArticleAustralia: Book Design
The Brisbane Timesdescribes the winning designs at the Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards. SQUIGGLY lines, wobbly handwriting and childish drawings were winning features at the...
View ArticleGender-Specific Covers Are Dominating the Market
The View From Here magazine features an article on "The Integrity of Book Jackets." Here's an excerpt: So, whilst publishers and designers will say their ambition is to create stylish and innovative...
View Article"The World Has No Center"
KFSM.com's Global Viewpoint offers an interview with 2008 Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, who says that for literature, The world has no center ... Literature now is the...
View ArticlePhilippines: Book Blockade Over
The Far Eastern Economic Review features an article from Robin Hensley, who first broke the story regarding book import troubles in the Philippines: One should never underestimate the collective fury...
View ArticleUSA: Christian Magazine Publishers in Midst of "Perfect Publishing Storm"
Christianity Today International (CTI) announced it is shutting down four more of its magazines:To be shut down over the coming months are Today’sChristian Woman magazine, the Campus Life College...
View ArticleNigeria: Publisher Denouces "Cankerworm" of Piracy
The Sun News Onlineinterviewed Sir John Odike, the managing director of Africana First Publishers, an educational publisher in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria: Book piracy is a monster that must be...
View ArticleRussia: Concern For Bible Society, Other Christian Publishing Activity
Forum 18's newest article on Russia begins this way: The powers of the Russian Justice Ministry's Expert Council for Conducting State Religious-Studies Analysis were considerably widened in February...
View ArticleIndia: Market Could Surpass Canada Within 10 Years
From India's Business Standard: The National Readership survey 2005 revealed that the time that people in India spend on reading has gone up significantly — from 30 minutes per day to an average of 39...
View ArticleAn In-Depth Look at Canada's Publishing Industry
The National Post has a series of articles "examining the ecology of books, the complex interrelationships that, taken together, form Canada’s publishing industry — from small-press proprietors to the...
View ArticleZambia: Books Bring Empowerment in Recession
At the fair organized by the Book Publishers of Zambia, education minister Geoffrey Lungwangwa hailed books as tools to mitigate the impact of the current economic crisis, reportsThe Lusaka Times:...
View ArticlePhilippines: WWJD For Religion Publishers Today
ABS/CBN News reports, Although faith comes in endless supply, the demand for spiritual and theological books are reportedly slowing in the economic crisis, such that some religious publishing houses...
View ArticleRecession is Sowing Time
Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, has this to say about print publishing in a recession: The print [publications] that add value to the Internet are going to be fine in this economy. But some kinds of...
View ArticleDiscerning the Times
This is the last entry of the Cook Partners blog, as we announced some time ago:Among those who joined King David’s army at Hebron, there was one group “from the tribe of Issachar … 200 leaders of the...
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