We were interested in Bob Miller’s own take on the Harper Studio experiment, which he offers below: “The Harper Studio experience has been a gratifying and educational one. I think that the large publishing conglomerates of the future should have units devoted to experimentation, and I think we need to keep trying as an industry to find ways to share risks and rewards differently with authors on the one hand and retailers on the other. Authors need to be treated as partners both creatively and financially; booksellers also need to find ways to share the risk, especially on new authors. […]
