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Times Book Review on advances, and related thoughts

The NY Times Book Review published a piece on advances online today to which I was first pointed by Twitter early this morning. I couldn’t tell whether author Michael Meyer was “for ‘em or agin’ ‘em”....

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Ebooks are making me recall the history of mass-market publishing

The ebook revolution is really beginning to remind me of the mass-market papeback revolution. The mass paperback was really “invented” by Sir Allan Lane when he created Penguin in Britain before World...

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Technology, curation, and why the era of big bookstores is coming to an end

I stumbled across a Sarah Weinman post from a few months ago that posits the notion that the chain bookstore (by which it would appear she means the superstores of the past 20 years, not the chain...

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