I have moderated and participated on panels at national industry shows:
- NYU Summer Publishing Institute 2016 — “Publishing is Everywhere You Want to Be.”
- Book Expo America (BEA) 2016 — “Who’s Smarter? What Publishing Students Teach Their Professors.”
- Digital Book World 2016 — “The Book Buyer’s Journey: Understanding the Consumer Path to Purchase.”
- SUNY Global Center 2015 — “The eBook Market for Children’s Books.”
- Digital Book World (Workshop) 2014 — “Ebook Publishing for Everyone: How Non-Book-Publishing…”
- Digital Book World 2014 — “Supply Chain – Managing Print Inventory and Sales in the Digital Age.”
- Digital Book World 2013 — “New Business Model Experimentation.”
- Book Expo America (BEA) 2013 — “eBooks For Libraries: Good for Authors?”
- Your Expert Nation (Seminar) 2013 — “Publishing Professionals Offer Best Practices for Self-Publishing.”
- Digital Book World 2012— “DIgital Shorts and Singles: Developing a Short-form Content Strategy.”
- PublishersLaunch BEA 2012 — “Sales Across the Borders – Export.”
- Book Expo America (BEA) 2012 — “eBooks and Print Books for Museum Stores.”
- Digital Book World 2011 — “eBook Distribution for Small and Mid-sized Publishers.”
- PublishersLaunch BEA 2011 — “The Growth of eBooks in the US.”
- PublishersLaunch NYC 2011 (at NYU) — “The eBook Marketplace.”
- NYU SPS 2015-2017 — teach the “Capstone in Publishing” in the graduate program. Won the 2017 “Award for Teaching Excellence.”
- I blogged for DBW as part of their ‘Expert Publishing Blog’ group.
Some recent quotes:
Crain’s New York Business : Once seen as a dying business, city bookstores are gaining ground
“If they have been buying under one account, then the different locations would be treated as one entity and not be able to be peeled off by location,” said Jack Perry, an industry consultant and former sales executive.
Capital New York : News Corp. All Set With Watchman
“”It’s gonna have a tremendous effect,” said Jack Perry, founder of the publishing advisory firm 38enso Consulting. He predicts first-year sales of 1.5 million, backlist sales of half a million annually and a 20- to 25-percent bump for Mockingbird to boot. “I think they’ve got something they can count on for a long time.”
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The New York Times : Holiday Sales Slide 60% at Barnes & Noble Nook Unit, Pointing to Tests for Chief
“Jack W. Perry, a publishing consultant, said that Barnes & Noble’s position had become precarious. “They need to get their act together now,” he said. “They need to do something now before the Nook is no longer viable.”
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Bloomberg Businessweek : The Many Faces of Steve Jobs: The Paperback Comes Out With a Younger Image
“It’s a way to reinvent the book for a younger audience,” says Jack Perry, a publishing industry consultant. Hardback books are aimed at businesspeople, who can afford them, he says; college students, if they still buy books, tend to buy paperbacks. “And some people may actually buy the book again just because it has a new cover.”
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Bloomberg Businessweek : The End: Barnes & Noble in Silicon Valley
“The company became kind of schizophrenic,” says Jack Perry, who runs the publishing consulting firm 38Enso and who has been watching the bookseller closely. “The people in New York didn’t know what was going on in Silicon Valley, and the people in Silicon Valley didn’t care what was going on in New York.”
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The New York Times : Fork in the Road for a Bookseller
“As ebook advocate Jack W Perry has commented: ‘I believe 99 cent eBooks are definitely a smart way to go for many publishers (and individuals). I understand the reasons traditional publishers want to hold onto a $14.99 eBook price. But that is old-school thinking and out of step with the realities of today’.”
The Indianapolis Star: SerVaas Family Wants a Dramatic Turnaround for The Saturday Evening Post
“The magazine’s would-be turnaround comes at a hard time for print magazines. “You look at some of them, and they’re having difficulties,” said media consultant Jack W. Perry. “I’m thinking of Newsweek and Time. But with The Saturday Evening Post being more feature driven, it’ll have a longer shelf life, which could certainly help it.”
The New York Times : Perseus new eBook distribution for authors.