Traditional Trade Book Publishers Are Scared -
Digital Publishing is now Publishing

Book2Book Friday 16 Apr 2010

It was interesting to read former CEO of Random House and now Harvard Business School professor Peter Olson take on the digital changes in publishing in the Harvard blog.

He recognises that "Traditional trade book publishers are scared." He explains, "The world that they have known, of print books and brick-and-mortar bookstores—the whole physical distribution system—is on the cusp of changing fundamentally." We agree that we are approaching a tipping point but not one that we often write about. The tipping point is that digital publishing is now publishing. This is a fundamental change and is a far more challenging to all than mere ebooks and digital devices.

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