The Business Rusch: The End of The World as We Know It
If you read mainstream publishing news, like I do, occasionally your head will explode. Or you’ll run around in a panic, turning into one of those long-haired barefoot New Yorker cartoon characters,...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: The All-Important Fan Base
I spent the holidays seeing movies. I expected to relax. I did not expect to find a blog topic, but I did. Two of the movies I saw, Jack Reacher, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, came from books....
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I have been down the rabbit hole, and it is labeled “Philip K. Dick.” I had a simple question: Who benefits directly from the Philip K. Dick estate? I found websites, wikipages, arguments, lawsuits...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: More Distribution Changes
This morning, my iPad Los Angeles Times app informed me that the creators of the TV show Veronica Mars had started a Kickstarter project. They wanted two million dollars to jump-start a movie, using...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Over Capitalization and Hamster Wheels
I am slowly coming to terms with how sick I was those last few years in Lincoln City. It’s a tough, slow process, because I got really far on denial. If I pretended I was fine, I managed my daily...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Content, Content, Content (Hollywood Part 2)
A few weeks ago, I got a survey from the Global Licensing Group, the people in charge of the Las Vegas Licensing Expo. They wanted to know my opinion (and probably hundreds of other people’s opinions)...
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