publishing

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).

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.