The Book Publishing Startup Problem

Two years ago at the Tools of Change conference in New York I was on a panel called "Startups to Publishing Companies Ripe for Expansion: What Are Investors in the Publishing Sector Looking For?".

Sophie Rochester was the moderator and she offered a balanced write-up of the session soon after. Her account of how the session began unmasked me to be the only negative voice in a crowd of boosters, "McIlroy...feels it's a very tough market. He explained that there are lots of companies looking for funding without success and believes that publishing is not a fertile ground for VCs,