April 2012 - Sameer Kamat

10 depressing facts about the book publishing industry

April 14, 2012 by Sameer Kamat

Steven Piersanti (President, Berrett-Koehler Publishers) recently published a top 10 list on the trends in the publishing industry. Though the numbers that are cited in the article are from the US, I’m guessing that some trends might be applicable to the world market as well. First a quick summary of the post and then we … Read more

Book publishing industry: How the revenue pie gets shared

April 7, 2012 by Sameer Kamat

In traditional book publishing, authors get the short end of the stick. You already knew that. We are talking about income in the form of book royalty. So if an author does all the hard work of writing the book and the reader does the (harder?) work of patiently reading it, where does the rest … Read more