A few things to share from the Making Information Pay Conference this morning. Consultant Mike Shatzkin at the Idea Logical Company offered results from a survey and follw-up interviews conducted with 250 publishing people prior to the event looking at how sales channels are shifting in these challenged times. While everyone is seeing brick-and-mortar trade sales fall, there was “some questiona s to whether indies or chains are falling faster.” There was also “widespread agreement that library budgets cuts will affect publishers adversely,” whether or not that has shown up in industry statistic yets. They “did see much more gloom […]
