This blog is about books, their writers, their publishers, and their readers. The general opinion on books is that they are powerful: they can change the inside of people and the external events that shape the history of the world. However, they are a smaller part of the economy than cars, tv sets, or even hot dogs.
Most writers cannot make a living from their job, publishers routinely say that Amazon is going to destroy their business, and readers are substituting endless texting and Facebook networking for deep immersion in books. As any human activity, producing books requires resources, and reading them use time. Both resources and time are finite.
In this blog I will collect news and analyses on the economics (and sometimes the sociology, and the psychology) of books.
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