Robert McCrum on the Changes in Publishing

Literary publishing is a long way removed from the stuff O'Reilly gets involved in, and the whole mainstream publishing programme runs on an entirely different business model. The Observers' literary editor, Robert McCrum, is leaving his job after ten years, and has written a ten-point breakdown of the big changes he sees affecting the industry: First, despite the steady evolution from typesetting to digitisation, the printed book has held out against electronic options. It is as if, after l