pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

Richard Nash from Soft Skull Press sent out a link to this speech by Mike Shatzkin on “The Future of Books for Publishers and Booksellers,” calling it “dead-on.” There are certainly some key insights here: the vertical arrangement of publishing online (as opposed to the horizontality of old-school publishing), acknowledgment of the file as the medium of exchange (as opposed to the previous variety of formats), The Long Tail as a good thing for consumers (but not so much for authors and publishers), etc. It’s definitely worth checking out. Read the whole speech here.