Ah, the internet. You knew we had to get to it sooner or later! We’ll look at what the internet did to book distribution first, then we’ll need to look at the impact of this upon authors (since we are, after all, authors, and that’s our perspective.) Amazon.com was the huge change to bookselling and…

You might think that the first big change in the early 1990’s was the internet, but something happened in book publishing and distribution before that. That change was corporate consolidation. In the 1990’s, it was very fashionable at a corporate level to merge and consolidate companies. This happened in two arenas in publishing – well,…

I thought we’d tear into a meaty topic for the new year, and talk about book distribution. Like most aspects of publishing, this is something that has been changing in recent years, and – like most aspects of publishing – the impetus for change is the internet. But let’s start at the beginning. Once upon…