posts by Ned Litte:
When you buy a book in Canada, whether it is at a physical store or online, you are more than likely going to be enriching one company, Indigo. Indigo currently accounts for nearly 67% (44% excluding online and mail-order) of all national sales. The largest book seller in the United ... more >
Simon and Schuster is creating a new position within it’s company to bolster it’s presence in digital publishing. Publishers Weekly reports that Elinor Hirschhorn has been hired into the new position titled Chief Digital Officer. S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy states “Digital initiatives are a top priority and we are determined ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / book-salesComments Off on Amazonian Numbers
From Publishers Weekly: The Publishers Weekly Stock Index managed to eke out a 1.7% increase last year, thanks largely to Amazon.com. Shares soared nearly 135% while the stock fortunes of traditional book stores fared much worse, particularly Borders Group, which lost half of it’s value in 2007. Even bookstore leader ... more >
Okay readers, don’t get too bent out of shape, this is not a sports article about why I loved seeing the Giants win (or better yet, having Tom Brady lose). Earlier in the week there was an interesting article on slow publishing times due to the mass amount of marketing ... more >
Publishing Newsmarketing2 Comments
The New York Times has an interesting article about technology and how it is helping many of us work smarter and faster in the workplace but for writers it just means a longer lag time between when they submit a book and when it finally gets published. Enter us humans. ... more >
Publishing Newsdigital_music_industry / marketing / Movies2 Comments
Movie sound tracks make very little money in the marketplace so Mark Cuban has an idea to make better use of the music. It takes a lot of cash to promote a movie so Mark wonders how many more people would go to the movie if they knew that their ... more >