It’s tempting, with any issue about trade and business, to appeal to the “invisible hand” of the marketplace. To simply say “The invisible hand will take care of […]
economics / society / sociology
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The MarcoPoloization of Culture
The McDonaldization of everything faded a little bit from the forefront of American consciousness over the last five years, but the process is still there. Perhaps we have […]
economics / publishing
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Profit Sharing Is Trust
There’s a specific reason I like income-sharing (or co-op) models for businesses. They inherently work to ensure that everyone’s interests are aligned. For example, take the “author copies” […]
economics / publishing
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Deciding when it’s “worth it”
Whenever you start talking to authors about what kinds of deals you should sign, there are often caveats. Should you do work-for-hire? “Depends on whether it’s worth it […]
ebooks / economics
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Revised Model of eBook Sales
Executive, plain language summary: If you sell a book to everyone in a room on the first day, you won’t sell any more until you go outside the […]
economics / education / sociology
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Why Higher Ed Will Crash, and Hints on Surviving
Why should you listen to me? Because I assimilate data and resynthesize it. I tend to be about a step and a half behind the trendsetters – […]