Litopia Star Columnist Blog Archive

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Amazon and B&N Continue to Redefine Their Roles

Wednesday 19th May

It is clear that the publishing marketplace is going through radical changes with new entrants, the rise of author power and existing players all scrambling for a place in this new world order.

Brave New World: 2020 Vision in Digital Book World (Part 2)

Tuesday 18th May

Presentation to the Seoul International Book Fair, Seoul, South Korea, May 2010

Part 2 The Digital Market and short term predictions

The digital market is growing at a pace which is hard to predict. The US market is clearly leading the way, as are sectors such as academic...

Brave New World: 2020 Vision in Digital Book World (Part 1)

Tuesday 18th May

Part 1 of the presentation to the Seoul International Book Fair, Seoul, South Korea, May 2010

The Brave New World report was published less than four years ago, in November 2006. Its aim was to identify the opportunities and challenges for booksellers in this new emerging digital market....

Are Digital Book Pirates Ahoy?

Friday 15th January

Today’s trade press is littered once more with assumptions about the state of book piracy and its impact on revenues and the market. This is an emotive subject which has many issues, much sensitivity and is often divorced of real facts.

Good Times

Wednesday 13th January

My first column of the year in the British publishing trade magazine The Bookseller has just been published - reproduced here...

Call me crazy, but I'm wildly optimistic about the new decade. In fact,...

The Great Book Bank Robbery: Right On Chinese Authors

Monday 11th January

So whe

eInk Today But Gone Tomorrow?

Sunday 10th January

It now appears that anyone electronics firm standing has created their own ebook reader. Everywhere you turn you find a new one and as we have said many times, differentiating between them is very difficult and even keeping tabs on them is now getting ridiculous. So is this a good thing or a bad...

Your Library Needs You

Wednesday 6th January

Is The Author Victim?

Monday 4th January

In the article which was published in the New York Times today,‘There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen’,Jonathan Galassi, the President of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, expressed his views on the current Random House...