Book Publishing Industry
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
3 statements about Book Publishing Industry, every show
Benedict Evans: Tech has not fundamentally disrupted the book publishing industry
“Tech has basically not been a problem for the book industry. You know, obviously lots has changed, and they've got Amazon as this one giant customer, but we did not move to a model in which everybody gets all the books they want, and all the books are digital,…”
Evans: Flat-rate subscriptions cap high-spending whales, failing in books
“With all of these subscription models, you're capping your whales. So with music, you had a small number of people who were paying a hundred dollars a month or more, whatever it was, and now they can only, for CDs, now they can get everything for 10 dollars a …”