tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138004732009-11-17T04:19:43.053-08:00Print on Demand and ebook publishing have created a whole new model for publishing. Are POD and digital books the answer to an author's prayers, or just an evolutionary step between traditional publishing models and free Internet distribution?Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.comBlogger461125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-43796084822755304712009-11-16T23:41:00.000-08:002009-11-17T04:19:43.070-08:00

In the bricks-and-mortar world, competition and pricing are relatively straightforward relationships. If you spend the money to open a supermarket sized bookstore next to a competing supermarket sized bookstore, casual customers are as likely to enter your store as the long established competitor and to shop on price. More frequent buyers may be enrolled in various customer loyalty programs that

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Publishers seem to have forgotten that evolution can only work if every intermediate step is viable. There’s a rush on to bring out pointless “next generation” eBooks in the hope that they will be a stepping stone to a new type of interactive book that publishers can’t quite describe yet. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. The reason people put up with mainframe computers programmed by stacks of

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Not too many years ago, the rule of thumb said that trades publish around seven times as many nonfiction titles a year as fiction titles, but that the aggregate sales of nonfiction vs fiction titles are about the same. These numbers referred strictly to trade publishing, which roughly means books intended to be sold in general bookstores, as opposed to textbooks, professional books and religious

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