Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Don Linn, a partner at the brand-new digital publisher, Quartet Press— talking about digital pricing and recession-era bookselling.
Among the many topics discussed, Linn pondered HarperCollins’ rough financial year and the digital boom in romance titles. FishbowlNY has a good summary as well, looking at the episode’s discussion about work alternatives for journalists.
Click here to listen, but here’s a quote: “Unfortunately, a great list no longer really quite get you over the hump, because there are so many dysfunctional parts of the supply chain, problems with retailers, and so many problems with the basic traditional model. There are so many problems that even the best publishers, and I would certainly put HarperCollins in that group, have a hard time overcoming.”