Some questions
Category: Metadata , E-commerce
1. Why isn't Bowker leaping into GDSN? Mass merchants are craving book data in their GS1 data pools. Bowker's perfectly positioned to do this. The question really IS on everybody's mind- it asks itself at every industry meeting I go to.
2. Why don't publishers do simultaneous translations of their bestsellers, to eliminate piracy and to broaden their markets? If the UN can do it, why can't Scholastic?
In other news...well, it's August. BISG committees are meeting throughout the summer rather than taking their traditional break - a sign of how the industry is marching away from its patrician days. When I joined Doubleday in 1987, there was still drinking at lunch, and during "summer hours" you really were expected to go to the Hamptons on the weekends and play softball with the Paris Review crowd. Now there's not even drinking at dinner, and the Hamptons have been overtaken by arrivistes.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube (I know I keep saying this, but it bears repeating like a mantra). But it makes a fine sneaker-polish. The industry's a different beast these days. E-commerce, cross-channel selling, EDI, databases and search technology, the global market - once we graduated into a world of zeros and ones, we left the dusty world of cigarettes and martinis and summer hours far, far behind.
2. Why don't publishers do simultaneous translations of their bestsellers, to eliminate piracy and to broaden their markets? If the UN can do it, why can't Scholastic?
In other news...well, it's August. BISG committees are meeting throughout the summer rather than taking their traditional break - a sign of how the industry is marching away from its patrician days. When I joined Doubleday in 1987, there was still drinking at lunch, and during "summer hours" you really were expected to go to the Hamptons on the weekends and play softball with the Paris Review crowd. Now there's not even drinking at dinner, and the Hamptons have been overtaken by arrivistes.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube (I know I keep saying this, but it bears repeating like a mantra). But it makes a fine sneaker-polish. The industry's a different beast these days. E-commerce, cross-channel selling, EDI, databases and search technology, the global market - once we graduated into a world of zeros and ones, we left the dusty world of cigarettes and martinis and summer hours far, far behind.
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