The Business of Books: Why Curation Beats Search
You can’t have failed to notice that there are an awful lot of books around these days. Too many books, some say.[1]
‘Every year there are a million new books published in English. That is officially published books around the world. They have an ISBN. Every year, we are adding 1,000,000 books to the sum total of what there is to read. Of course, that’s compounding on all the books that are out there already… Then there is the vast, vast demi-monde of books that are published unofficially, they don’t have an ISBN. No one know quite the number that is, but it will substantially increase on the million figure, maybe double it, maybe more.’ That’s Michael Bhaskar – digital publisher and co-founder of Canelo, author of Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess, and my guest on The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast last week.
