by Christopher A. Berry
I submit my tribute to the late, great Robert B. Parker.
There is no one out there working harder to rethink publishing than is Richard Eoin Nash. His willingness to take that thinking to places where conglomerated publishers are completely incapable of treading is, I think, a challenge and a gift to the industry. And I think it likely that his assertions will prove a force in developing the Next Synthesis that publishing will be.
by Fred Ramey
I should probably spend this space welcoming you to the new website and telling you of its features. But . . . really . . .
When the WebMasters took me off the blog a while back—assuring me that it was only so that they could redesign the site—they probably saved you and me a lot of trouble. Certainly they kept me from ranting so easily about this and that.
I have been operating under the assumption that hard-wired into the human brain just might be a love of the memento and the heirloom.
We all could see and marvel at the tubes and circuits of the amplifiers, the belts, gears and motors of the turntables.
As the Axis focuses more tightly on The Sure Thing, must every other novel, even in the independent store, actually be handsold?
Taking an author on the road, a publisher can learn again how rich and enjoyable the wide bookselling conversation can be.
Option clauses—and money—notwithstanding, would this sort of diversification help the literary world?
Other than that too-late and too-quick NYTBR reading (with its surprisingly distorted perspective), In Hovering Flight received significant positive reviews
This seems particularly important in light of a 21st century president’s taking the oath of office on the inaugural Bible of a 19th century president.
Of course the editor's is an outrageous, indefensible position for any one reader to take.
As we worry whether the big houses will survive, season by season, what are we losing sight of?
"A book is just a format." Actually, I think the assertion was originally made on the chat screen. And I guess that's where we are in publishing now. I get that.
