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If I seem to have found some answers for my blogging question, I still have some about what I should do on some social media, especially Facebook.
Recently I have realized that I am this platform for almost 10 years, it means I have given a lot of data about my private life to Mark Zuckerberg during this years… Pretty scary, isn’t?
I’m half way of my 30 days of blogging challenge. I am not happy with everything I have published, but I am happy for having pressed the « publish » button 15 days in a row.
There is a series of chemical processes. It might seem a bit technical but this video can give you some clues (thank you, JXO):
You might have noticed sometime in my email signature the mention:
« I welcome VSRE«
What do I mean by that?
Despite this song that I really like:
I am not going to recommend sunscreen for anyone because I do not believe it is a good protection.
It is always difficult to know the truth since the main seller of e-books is a company well known for not telling everything.
I was reading earlier today that US e-book sales have dropped in 2016. Apparently, it is the same thing on every mature market. Sales of E-readers seem to follow the same path and people use their phone as the main reader.
For France, Spain, etc. who have started later, there is still growth, the question is for how long. We are experimenting the same in Paris, especially since we are using immateriel as our platform. Our sales have dramatically increased but we don’t know for how long.
There are many reasons to have heard of Hildegard of Bingen. She is known as a saint, a music composer and a healer.
Even if they are very different, it can be tempting to compare Hildegard to Leonardo da Vinci (to read more about this, a blog post by art-brouillon.)
Woman from the Middle Ages, Hildegard has written some of the most important books from the period.
For book packagers and publisher the most important moments in the year are international book fairs where we meet our client publishers. For us it is the London Book Fair in spring but the main one is Frankfurt Buch Messe which is mid October.
For children book publishing there is also Bologna and other book fairs are minor and of local interest.
The countdown is on and we had today a very important meeting in Paris to select which titles from Leduc.s Editions and all our imprints (Leduc, Alisio, L’Inedite, Charleston, Diva) should be selected for the rights catalogue.
That’s a big take away from James Atuchler’s book I have just read from amazon prime.
I have no clue (joking).
We live in a limited world and creativity is probably the best way to push the boundaries away and to find new paths.
The more you live on your good ideas, the more you free yourself.
I think it’s great, really!
Of course, for like every publisher on the planet, I feel it as a threat to our existence: self-publish means publishing without a publisher.
Are we going to continue to live if the world doesn’t need us?
In the past, when you wanted to put something into writing, you had to go to a printer or a publisher and ask him if he would agree to invest time and money to print it and make it available to the public.
That’s it. Every year in Livres Hebdo I look at where we are in the Classement and in 2016, we have reached another level. According to this magazine, Leduc.s editions, the French publishing company I co-founded with my father in 2002 is now in the top 40 of French publishing groups.
The sales in France only has reached a level of Euro 7,49 Million in 2016. It represents a growth of 23% compared to 2015… And it doesn’t include Eddison Books sales since the financial statements were not done at that time.