Alongside Simon & Schuster’s new Author and Agent portals, reported yesterday, Random House and Hachette Book Group told the NYT they are working on similar efforts. Random House’s Stuart Applebaum “said a date had not yet been set, but that the site would provide sales data in all formats, in addition to marketing tools and related information.” Sophie Cottrell indicated Hachette’s portal would launch “sometime in 2012.” That’s the news portion of the Times article. The rest underscores the narrative thread that will apparently drive NYT publishing coverage for the foreseeable future: everything is a response to Amazon. Publishers sharing […]
