Chris Webb

The Radiohead Model for Book Publishers

Radiohead’s “pay what you think we deserve” experiment has been the topic of much discussion lately.  Of course, as a content publisher I am interested in how such a model might look for my industry – book publishing.  A small independent publisher, Another Sky Press has been using a very similar model for their books [...]

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Going Out of Print – Simon and Schuster Changes the Rules

The New York Times is reporting on Simon and Schuster’s new approach to books going out of print. Traditionally, if a book falls out of print, authors are contractually allowed to ask their publishers for their rights back so that the author can try to have the book republished somewhere else. Until recently, that has meant that [...]

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