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The end of the independent bookstore (and a new golden age for books) 13 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
ACT 1: The Book of the Month Club. After World War II, a wealthier, better educated country started engaging in more culture, more often, in a more widespread way. We were more likely to watch the sa...
Does Kickstarter work as a platform for books? 31 Dec 2012 | 05:13 pm
Those that have been following along have seen the Kickstarter posts I did here, here and here. Feel free to go catch up, I’ll wait… THE THEORY: The hardest part of book publishing is getting the firs...
Voting for a winner 19 Jul 2012 | 11:15 pm
The single most fascinating Kickstarter stat is this: The odds of succeeding with your campaign are ten times higher once you reach about half of your goal. While this is somewhat self-fulfilling (o...
When you focus on what’s being removed, it’s easier to understand the revolution 18 Jul 2012 | 06:05 am
We remove shelf space as a limiting factor in books. We remove the cost of polycarbonate as a cost factor in CDs. We remove paper as an expense in magazines. We remove the number of channels as a l...
Confusing media with messages 13 Jul 2012 | 09:27 pm
Yesterday’s post about the halfway mark got a few responses from people who thought I was selling books short. “There has not ever been, nor will there ever be, a “halfway point” for cultural achievem...
And then what happens? 13 Jul 2012 | 12:25 am
What happens when we reach the halfway point, when most of the great books have already been published? Just as most of the great TV shows have probably already been made, and most of the great class...
The power of simultaneous action 6 Jul 2012 | 03:00 am
In 1776, the USA was more than 40 days across. It took over a month to ride on a horse from one end to the other. Today, it takes less than a second. And yet just about all of our systems are built ...
Kindle data progress four years later… 1 Jul 2012 | 12:48 am
I’ve written a few posts about how I’d maximize the value of e-readers. Here’s the first and the second. Four years later, one of the things I’ve been agitating for–using the knowledge of how much ti...
Watching the price of media fall 24 Jun 2012 | 09:30 pm
I did a show at the NBC headquarters in NY a few weeks ago. I’m guessing that it costs them about $6,000 a minute to make a news show in the studio. That counts the painters, the set guys, the three c...
Author’s wishlist for Kickstarter 23 Jun 2012 | 08:02 pm
Having had a ball using Kickstarter, I couldn’t help but notice ways I’d like to improve it. Here are my top tweaks: Allow backers to get more than one reward. Right now, you need to open two account...
