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As some authors report their sales slowing, Marcello Vena in Gothenburg, Sweden, tells The Next Chapter publishing conference that the Long Tail may become the Lost Tail — crushed under a load of books no one has time to read.

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On the eve of Stockholm’s The Next Chapter publishing conference, the former chief of the UK’s Penguin Books Digital spoke of the “inherent decency” of the industry; the message of video’s prevalence; the fact that everybody is a publisher today; and the possibility that publishing is “too nice.”