{"id":1984,"date":"2009-08-31T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/burning-down-the-hardback\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T18:59:43","slug":"burning-down-the-hardback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/31\/burning-down-the-hardback\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Down The Hardback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/79c84068-957c-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html#\" target=\"_blank\">from The Financial Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: 700; padding-left: 12px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px\">Books: Consolidation is the big story<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 12px; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 0px\">By Ben Hall in Paris<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 12px; font-size: 0.9em; margin: 0px\">Published: August 31 2009 04:06 | Last updated: August 31 2009 04:06<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The book publishing industry will have to consolidate if it is to stand up to<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/markets.ft.com\/tearsheets\/performance.asp?s=us:AMZN\" symbol=\"us:AMZN\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #003399\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/markets.ft.com\/tearsheets\/performance.asp?s=us:GOOG\" symbol=\"us:GOOG\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #003399\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and a few other dominant retailers of electronic books, according to the chief executive of Hachette Livre, the world\u2019s second- largest publisher by sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/eink.jpg\" title=\"eink.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/eink.jpg\" alt=\"eink.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arnaud Nourry said publishers needed to be big to maintain their pricing power in \u201cbrutal\u201d talks with the handful of booksellers that would dominate the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the beginning of the process of transformation where size and the capacity to impose viable business models will be essential,\u201d he told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>The internet and digitisation were important opportunities to attract new readers and create markets, Mr Nourry said. \u201cE-education\u201d \u2013 putting school manuals online with additional interactive tools \u2013 was taking educational publishing into the realm of services.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/79c84068-957c-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html#\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at FT.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Financial Times Books: Consolidation is the big story By Ben Hall in Paris Published: August 31 2009 04:06 | Last updated: August 31 2009 04:06 The book publishing industry will have to consolidate if it is to stand up to\u00a0Amazon,\u00a0Google\u00a0and a few other dominant retailers of electronic books, according to the chief executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}