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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2022, Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 1 today.

  • By Joseph Esposito, Alice Meadows, Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 29, 2022
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Rival Ecosystems: The Increasingly Porous Boundary between Institutional and Consumer Markets

Institutional and consumer markets are becoming more closely linked because of Amazon’s powerful value proposition, making it necessary for academic book publishers to create consumer services of their own.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 20, 2018
  • 36 Comments

How to Reduce the Cost of College Textbooks

Of the many proposals to lower the cost of college textbooks, the model called “inclusive access” may have the best chance, as it creates incentives for publishers and students alike.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 27, 2017
  • 42 Comments

An Industry Pining for Bookstores

Publishing does not take place in a vacuum but in an ecosystem. The book business is changing not because of a preference for digital books but because physical bookstores are being removed from the ecosystem.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 12, 2013
  • 96 Comments

The Last Bookshop

A surprisingly charming short film about a world where books have gone extinct.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 14, 2013
  • 6 Comments

The Results Are In — A Survey of Book Purchasers

The results from a recent survey on book discovery and purchasing are now available. Print is declining, but still an essential component of the business.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 16, 2013
  • 20 Comments

Amazon Enhances Its Position in Academic Markets with Launch of Its Whispercast System

Amazon’s new local distribution technology allows academic institutions new levels of control.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 19, 2012
  • 13 Comments

A Publisher's Strategy for Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA)

While patron-driven acquisitions is likely to reduce publishers’ revenue in the short-term, over the long term it is likely that the revenue will be restored and even enhances. This post lists all the “PDA offsets” a publisher should consider.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 21, 2012
  • 10 Comments

The Joy of Books — A Short, Inspired Film Full of Passion

Passions die harder than businesses, and when passions energize a business, little miracles can happen, as this short film demonstrates.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 13, 2012
  • 3 Comments

"A Novel Bookstore" — A Review

A review of the novel “A Novel Bookstore” by Laurence Cossé, which imagines an ideal bookstore and the policies required, including peer review, to make such a venture possible.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Nov 9, 2011
  • 0 Comments

Post-Mortem of a Book Empire — Borders, and the Mismanagement of the Future

The demise of Borders is a lesson in management pitfalls. Are STM publishers up to the challenges they’ll be facing soon?

  • By Michael Clarke
  • Jul 28, 2011
  • 3 Comments

Summer Reading — By the Book, or By the Box?

60% of book purchases now happen outside the traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 5, 2008
  • 0 Comments

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