It’s too long to summarize or extract a pithy quote from, but there’s an essay at Editorial Ass about the current state of book publishing, and more specifically where it’s headed, that is absolutely worth your attention. The essay was inspired by a recent talk by Twelve publisher Jon Karp which the anonymous editorial staffer attended, and it offers some interesting possibilities about the Twelve model becoming more of an industry standard, and where author-editor relations need to go.
Meanwhile, Open Center‘s Three Percent blog points to a series of posts by Sara Lloyd at Pan Macmillan‘s The Digitalist which break down an article she wrote about “how traditional publishers need to position themselves in the changing media flows of a networked era” into six readily digestible chunks. I confess I’ve had to set this one aside for the weekend, but the excerpts I’ve seen look very compelling.