1. What is Driving our Business
Timothy Doyle
Harvard University Press
April 13, 2012
2. Current Year
Success of front list titles
International sales
Expansion of digital sales and POD
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3. Next Year and Beyond
Continued expansion of international sales
DeGruyter
HBP
Expansion of digital sales beyond eBooks
Subscriptions for new products (non Apps)
Backlist digitization (DeGruyter)
Other revenue sources
Aggregation and Rights income
Improved internal publishing workflow
ePub, Mobi
XML for repackaging of content
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4. Trends and Challenges
Trends:
Continued increase in eBook and POD
Reduction in papercover sales
Backlist declines
Reduction in gross sales (and Returns)
Stagnation in domestic sales and growth
internationally
Challenges
Production and distribution costs
More reliance on front list
Refinement of Editorial Strategy & new products
Publicity for books that don’t “sell themselves”
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