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Ian Terrell's avatar

Well at least now I have an underpriced hardcover coming to me via Amazon Prime.

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Clayton Davis's avatar

Ted Gioia, on his wonderful music blog, has written consistently and convincingly about how record companies have been perversely anti-innovation for thirty years, sticking to slow and outmoded business models while Silicon Valley eats their lunch.

Reading this, I get the same feeling about publishing. From the outside, it looks there are all the pieces needed to make a robust, sustainable book business for the future. But is it being built?

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