That's why Square One founder and Publisher Rudy Shur's Guest Column in the May/June issue of Book Business—my first as editor-in-chief—gave me plenty of food for thought. Shur, as head of an independent publishing house, takes the often-not-as-popular stance that jumping head-first into the e-book fray at this time is not the smartest strategy for his business. "… Right now, we need to keep our eye on producing titles for the 97 percent [of our business] that comprises the traditional markets," Shur wrote to his fellow indies. "When the time is right to make the move to e-books, we'll know it." If you haven't already read Shur's column in the magazine, I encourage you to read it at BookBusinessMag.com, as he lends a thought-provoking point-of-view to the "should we or shouldn't we" e-book debate.
- Companies:
- Quirk Books
- People:
- Rudy Shur
- Shur
- Todd Bottorff