News & Opinion – Tagged "Publishing Industry"– Page 25 – Porchlight Book Company

Aug 13, 2007

Where Did The Book Reviews Go?

by Porchlight Author

The most recent issue of Fast Company makes me think the magazine has dropped their coverage of business books. Booooooo.

Aug 01, 2007

More on Harry Potter

by Porchlight Author

BusinessWeek has an article about the logistics of delivering 12,000,000 books in two days. To quote "If all the trucks that delivered Deathly Hallows were lined up bumper-to-bumper, Scholastic says, the caravan would stretch 15 miles. " Fascinating stuff!

Jul 23, 2007

Potter Phenomenon

by Porchlight Author

We can't ignore the publishing highpoint that took place over the weekend. The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on Saturday at 12:01AM generated sales of 8. 3 million copies in its initial day on the market.

Jul 17, 2007

Bet On Longer Attentions Spans

by Porchlight Author

Monocle, a very cool and hip European magazine, has an video interview with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego. When asked how his company would deal with children's lack of time to play with their product, this was his response: Playing with Lego is like reading a book,. Books, people have said books would die.

Jul 17, 2007

The business of the book business

by Porchlight Author

Random House (a piece of that German giant Bertelsmann) recently crunched their publishing numbers with New York magazine. The numbers: There are 1,500 Random House employees in New York. Every week they unveil 67 new books (around 3500 books/year).