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Community-centric publishing?

Good post, and very possibly true.

Publishers are in the process of discovering that we’re in a shift from a product-centric world to a community-centric one. The new challenge arises from the fact that it is simple to pay royalties for sales of a product; it is a lot harder to pay somebody for their contribution to a community.

The author-publisher deal needs tweaking – The Shatzkin Files

March 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Dan Poynter’s Late to the Party

A little late to the party.

I hate when people discover “new” methods and trends that are actually old news to anybody who relies on primary sources for news. To be sure, there’s an argument that it’s still news to a lot of people, but that’s the same argument that the lame old media use to explain why they’re doing feature stories in 2009 about new-fangled stuff like Twitter and Facebook.

Dan Poynter’s Self-Publishing Manual, Volume 2: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (Paperback)

via Amazon.com: Dan Poynter’s Self-Publishing Manual, Volume 2: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book: Dan Poynter: Books.

February 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Pricing Cloud

This is a “pricing cloud” on all Nimble Books — y axis is lifetime revenue per month in print and x axis is $ price. I’m not sure what if anything it tells me!

This is lifetime unit sales (logarithmically) x price — only for LSI books, and not adjusted per month in pub (because, idiotically, LSI does not include the pub date in its financial reporting).

August 16th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Google Knol invents … the book!

Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone

A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone.

The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people’s heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It’s their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.

July 23rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment