Lacunae Musing

This famous dictum by Socrates can be interpreted many ways.   He was a philosopher and it may be that philosophy is indeed the basis f...

A follow up to Publishers in the Crosshairs , hopefully a more carefully considered one. The eBook wars are far more complicated than imagin...

Maybe it’s because I’ve been on the periphery of the industry for a while, the salad days of my publishing career behind me, but being a fir...

Unfortunately this is not the first time that I’ve said something negative about my industry . I am particularly bewildered as to how some g...

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Priced to Sell; Is Free the Future?” in the recent issue of the New Yorker brings up fascinating issues, ones I dealt w...

The commoditization of publishing due to the convergence of trade publishing and other forms of entertainment in a digital age is just but o...