Break the Spine

Welcome to the Revolution! I'm Monique Trottier of SoMisguided.com and I'm tired of the book publishing industry not being able to en masse figure out how to create a free economy for books. By free, I mean libre not gratis. This is not about ebooks or giving away books for free. This is about how do we find a way for creators to make money creating, how do we manage a sustainable industry, how do we get books into the hands of readers. My definition of book can be different from yours. This is not a war of formats. This is a revolution (a full turn of the wheel) on how we think about the creation, editing, production, distribution and promotion of book content.

The Value of Book Publishers

Where is book publishing at and where is it going? Bernard Lunn tackles this question in his two-part article, Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business, giving a fairly thorough overview of how digitization is changing the industry.

Lunn looks at the waves of destruction hitting publishing and how these waves are going to affect the multi-billion dollar market and the percentage everyone involved takes.

Is Amazon taking too much of the pie? Should authors be earning more? Do publishers have a role to play in this new publishing world?

While Lunn suggests that in the future, authors will play a bigger part in publishing their books, where does this leave publishers and the value they provide?