Sophie Rochester

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,

That’s the title of an article by Sophie Rochester in The Literary Platform.  Here’s a sampling: … … While it’s the start-ups who appear to be more agile and bold when it comes to creating innovative digital publishing business models, our established publishers still hold the key to producing some of the best quality content. [...]