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Amazon, Antitrust & The E-Commerce Railroad

Amazon has become a form of infrastructure for 21st-century commerce. If you’re an independent merchant or an independent producer, and you want to reach consumers in the 21st century digital markets, you have to ride Amazon’s rails.

Global Book Sales Hold Steady

An opportunity in NYC for international reporters to put down their notebooks and compare professional circumstances

Published By Kickstarter

What’s so great about this crowdfunding model is that titles that might not appeal to a mainline publisher are eminently suitable. And in the end, you’re delivering directly into the hands of the reader a publication whose every quality you can control.

Melinda Gates Gets A Lift In Seattle

The next mega-memoir is very possibly “The Moment of Lift” by Melinda Gates, coming in April 2019

A Digital Golden Rule Made Possible By Blockchain

We’re casting a light on the whole industry. A publishing partner is going to be able to see how the toy sales are going and how the ed-tech licensing deals are going and how the video game sales are going. They can adjust their product offering because of that transparency.

Indie Stores And Presses Open Strong In 2019

A three-hour conversation about indie publishing did not have to mention Amazon or the names of the Big Five

Article 13: An Unlucky Number for YouTube

Sometimes called the YouTube Tax, Article 13 could require certain types of online services to take proactive steps to license copyrighted material or keep it off their services.

Fire & Fury, Other Bestsellers Burned Out Fast in 2018

Many books that one would expect to command top-of-the-list status, or to last longest, did not.

Winning in a Digital World

The democratization of ideas is a really wonderful thing. You have more people from more diverse points of view contributing to the world’s body of knowledge. But of course – and all publishers recognize this – it also creates a huge problem for the consumer of ideas.