I’ve been meaning to link to this Read-it-First article from Book Business but it didn’t appear on their website till recently. Now that’s it’s up I would encourage everyone in the publishing world to read it. It’s an interview Matt Steinmetz did with Matthew Baldacci of St. Martin’s Press and it talks about an...
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Why Is Everyone Stuck in 1980s Thinking?
Earlier in my career I was a programmer at NCR. That was in the 1980′s, the dawn of truly bad music and even worse hair styles. I came to NCR towards the end of their inwardly-focused, proprietary business model. They built their own hardware that supported their operating system and ran their own applications....
Interview with DailyMes Eduardo Hauser
I’ve been keeping a close eye on the news and newspaper industry, mostly because I think there are a lot of lessons for to be learned from it in the book publishing world. Although I still subscribe to my local paper, I find I get most of my news online from a variety of...
Interview with Safaris Mark Brokering
One of the many benefits of working at O’Reilly is that I get to spend time with several members of the Safari Books Online team. If you’re not familiar with Safari, it’s a digital library service that provides access to more than 8,000 titles from a variety of publishers. They also recently launched a...
