{"id":628,"date":"2009-07-17T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2009-07-17T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:55:26","slug":"the-newshour-on-the-future-of-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/the-newshour-on-the-future-of-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"The NewsHour on the future of publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on the NewsHour <a href=\"http:\/\/newshour-tc.pbs.org\/newshour\/rss\/media\/2009\/07\/16\/20090716_books.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Suarez discussed the future of the book publishing<\/a> business and its handling of e-books with Jonathan Karp of Hachette&#8217;s Twelve, one of my favorite imprints. Karp likens the publishing business to gambling, but what business isn&#8217;t like gambling? I found his analogy between the Kindle and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Walkman\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walkman\">Walkman<\/a> to be a little misleading, however. Sony, though it had a music library when the Walkman came out, didn&#8217;t have the same retail relationship with customers. The comparison would be more apt if Karp&#8217;s employer, Hachette, was the one behind the Kindle and not Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez prefaces the conversation with a brief segment about the book business as a whole, including a story about layoffs at Tattered Cover in Denver and a customer&#8217;s book buying binge of a response.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/authors\/edward_m_kennedys_1000_memoir_121636.asp?c=rss\"> Edward M. Kennedy&#8217;s $1,000 Memoir <\/a> (mediabistro.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/07\/05\/2110233\/Why-Amazons-Kindle-Should-Use-Open-Standards?from=rss\"> Why Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Should Use Open Standards <\/a> (hardware.slashdot.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blippitt.com\/kindle-author-gets-book-publishing-deal\"> Kindle Author Gets Book Publishing Deal <\/a> (blippitt.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/07\/15\/amazon-working-hard-to-get-kindle-to-the-uk-before-christmas\/\"> Amazon working hard to get Kindle to the UK before Christmas <\/a> (crunchgear.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/f3726d1f-aeb8-4195-918f-08f2fce0cfbc\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=f3726d1f-aeb8-4195-918f-08f2fce0cfbc\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on the NewsHour Ray Suarez discussed the future of the book publishing business and its handling of e-books with Jonathan Karp of Hachette&#8217;s Twelve, one of my favorite imprints. Karp likens the publishing business to gambling, but what business isn&#8217;t like gambling? I found his analogy between the Kindle and the Walkman to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,4],"tags":[53,239,56,52,55,54],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}