Published in: Booktrade.info

"Leigh Watson Healy, chief analyst of Outsell Inc., a research and advisory firm for the media and information industry, and the keynote speaker at Thursday's Making Information Pay seminar, sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group, called this an "unprecedented time" for the book industry and business in general. She said that Outsell's survey of publishing executives found "various opinions about what is happening," ranging from the "most optimistic" -- that "growth is coming later this year" -- to the idea that "we're continuing to fall into black hole that will never end." In fact, she emphasized, "the truth is in the middle": the industry is going through a time of "unprecedented change, and things likely will not be the same. . . ."

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