Maya Reynolds on lessons for New York publishers
By Paul Biba
Maya has a number of lessons that New York publishers must learn in the ebook area. Drawing on Kassia Krozser’s earlier post here she elucidates:
Don’t look to traditional publishers to lead the way to the future;
Publishers need to start listening to their customers;
The digital marketplace won’t conform to their business as usual;
Stop focusing on Amazon’s $9.99 price for ebooks
The details are worth reading.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:42 am
A good article, the upshot of which seems to be: Don’t look to the past, look to the future to build the e-book industry. I wholeheartedly agree, especially in terms of publishers, which are as traditional as you can get without a prescription…