Comments on: More Change Coming

By: Thomas E

Thomas E — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:54:16 +0000

Er, my translation is they want to make a website for cakebakers with lots of books cakebakers might be interested in?

(Where you can change cakebakers to another interest group) .

So they are only fifteen years behind the times.

By: RD Meyer

RD Meyer — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:36:17 +0000

“I expect there to be more dramatic, disruptive change ahead,” said Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah.

Disruptive to traditional publishing, not to the writers who want to get their work out there, and not the public who likes to buy said work.

By: Deb Kinnard

Deb Kinnard — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:21:58 +0000

It means installing those shelves where you have to screw the metal standards onto the wall and then you put brackets and shelves wherever you want. Right? Right? Let’s hear it for publisher flexibility!

By: Tom Simon

Tom Simon — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:40:50 +0000

Shame on you if you didn’t shout ‘Bingo!’ That one sentence would fill almost anyone’s buzzword card.

By: K. A. Jordan

K. A. Jordan — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:05:17 +0000

The last one – I’m absolutely sure of it!

By: LJ

LJ — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:01:43 +0000

Nah, it’s easier to stick a Penzoil logo on their foreheads.

By: J.M. Ney-Grimm

J.M. Ney-Grimm — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:39:01 +0000

Good one, B.S.!

By: B. S. Simon

B. S. Simon — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:16:43 +0000

““We need to brand our authors to get the widest possible reach,””

Why does this bring to mind a cowboy, a fire , and a piece of iron. Esspecialy in light of nonncompete clauses.

B.S.

By: Mira

Mira — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:51:21 +0000

Although, I probably should add that I doubt it will make much difference. But it sort of feels better watching them put up a fight, at least.

And, of course, I don’t care how much change they make to their business model, or their staff (not that it’s the staff’s fault, most likely, it’s the culture, and it’s the leadership), but as long as they treat the writer like crap, they will lose. The writer will leave. And that’s that.

By: LJ

LJ — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:48:30 +0000

We are making higher bookshelves?

We are constructing missiles to threaten communities into buying more of our books?

We are stoned out of our minds right now and are stringing random words together in hopes they sound technically impressive?