Re: What kind of pirate am I?

On Oct 15, 2010, at 7:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> 1.6. Re: What kind of pirate am I?
>    Posted by: "Mary E Tyler" [email protected]  
> private_ice_publications
>    Date: Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:38 pm ((PDT))
>
>> I even would be surprised if more than a few people here had even
>> heard of Dominque Raccah's speech on the topic recently. And she's a
>> HUGE name in our business.
>>
>
> Marion,
>
> Is her speech online anywhere or is there a transcript of it for those
> of us without the bandwidth (hard to believe but true out here in
> rural areas, no video for me!)? I've never heard of her, have no idea
> who she is, but if she has something to say, I'm sure we'd love to
> hear it.

I learned about it from Teleread and The Bookseller. <http://www.thebookseller.com/news/130730-raccah-calls-time-on-book-publishers-.html 
 >

The speech was given at the Frankfurt TOC conference, on 10/5


>
>> Moving the popular version of the world toward a more accurate
>> reflection of a complex reality is NOT easy.
>
> God no, it's not. To be fair, and with some small knowledge of the
> subject, ebooks should not be a whole lot cheaper than pbooks. The
> process is the same except for printing and shipping, which accounts
> (by rule of thumb) for about 25% of the cost of the book--but that
> does not include storage and bandwidth costs which have to be added on
> and are not insignificant. So really, there ought to be made a case
> for that, not in industry articles that regular people don't read, but
> on every epublisher's web site and every bookstore's web site. There
> is NO other way to educate people except to educate them.

True enough, and a good point. But publishers have never been very  
good at communicating the complexities of their industry to the rest  
of the world. . .


Marion Gropen
Gropen Associates, Inc.
Consulting By-The-Question,  Tools & Classes for Publishers
www.GropenAssoc.com
Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog



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