Presented to you in spreadsheet form courtesy of CNET. The spreadsheets also include links to the stories about the layoffs. Yikes, there are so many people that I’m competing with for very few jobs :(.
I’m sad to hear about the layoffs at Lulu since it believe so deeply in self-publishing. But I guess in tough times, words can stay in blogs and pictures on photo-sharing websites. I hope small publishers can weather the next few years to keep self publishing alive.
I like the “Don’t call us, we’ll call you,” attitude from The Getty. I wonder if after turning over photos to the Getty, is the photographer still able to give/share the photo to whoever they want.
This article from the New York Times gives a nice little summary of the various personal publiching services out there on the Internet. From the way this article reads, book making sounds like the next natural evolution of scrapbooking. I certainly do like it … much better than scrapbooking. It’s quicker and cheaper.