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An Autopsy of the Book Business - The Daily Beast
"Meanwhile, through today’s gloom we may discern a spectacularly bright future in which the rewards to writers and readers and even to publishers will be unprecedented as world-wide multilingual backlists expand online in a cultural revolution orders of magnitude greater than Gutenberg’s world-changing technology generated five centuries ago."
An Autopsy of the Book Business - The Daily Beast
Una bellissima "autopsia" dell'industria editoriale:
"By the mid 1970s the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers. Soon people shopped in deconstructed department stores, their former departments now individual specialty shops, where bookstores paid the same rent for the same limited space as the shoe store next door and needed the same quick turnover of inventories that sold themselves: books by celebrities and branded bestselling authors. By the eighties, publishers’ backlists were in steep decline as thousands of titles disappeared, dumped into the huge so-called orphanage of titles, no longer in print but still in copyright, whose owners can no longer be identified.
The steep decline in publishers’ backlists turned the industry upside down. Now publishers were obliged to pursue seasonal ephemera for which agents, putting their commercially viable titles up for auction, exacted unrealistic guarantees such as this seasons’ multimillion dollar guarantee to the multibillionaire Warren Buffett with his ready access to television, his folksy manner, and his hollow memoir—his true but neglected subject being greed, which has not lived up to expectations. Such disappointments are now commonplace and devastating. Publishers having lost control of their industry to commercially attractive authors and their agents are now not only their unhappy servants, but servants obliged to pay their masters for the privilege of serving them: an absurd and untenable situation."
giornali internet crisi editoria libri amazon kindle | The Marketer 2.0
"Qui in Italia la digitalizzazione dei libri scolastici genera ancora accese discussioni - libro di carta sì libro di carta no - (...) tutto questo mentre Amazon procedete spedita con il suo Kindle. Amazon ha, infatti, capito benissimo che i libri di carta faranno la fine dei giornali e che non ci sono corporazioni o luddisti che tengano."
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"Poligrafici Editoriale triplica la perdite del primo semestre rispetto allo scorso anno. Resto del Carlino e La Nazione costeranno il 10% in piu' mentre il cda decide sinergie con gruppi televisivi. 'Noi lo abbiamo sempre detto e lo andiamo ripetendo ad ogni occasione di incontro con gli editori della carta stampata: chi non passera' in tempi rapidi all'informazione in chiave digitale e mobile, rischia di farsi seriamente male. - dichiarano Roberto Santuccione e Cinzia Cordesco, fondatori di Finlloyd, primo gruppo editoriale mobile al mondo - Non voler prendere atto dei cambiamenti in corso potrebbe essere l'ultimo errore per molti e di questi tempi gli errori non sono riparabili e chi sbaglia esce di scena. Con i nostri sistemi abbiamo dimostrato come i costi per la gestione di un quotidiano si riducono anche del 90% ma gli editori della carta comemassimo di lungimiranza cosa fanno? Cercano complicita' nella televisione tradizionale, proprio in direzione opposta degli editori televisivi che cercano alleanze con le nuove tecnologie'."
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