At a point when the words “fast-changing landscape” have become so universally true of publishing that one starts looking for alternative phrasings to avoid monotony, surprisingly little change appears between the Publishing Trends Distributor Survey 2011 and the results for this year. We list 25 total companies with no new additions this year: 12 publishers…Continue Reading
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Tagged Abrams, Antique Collectors' Club, ARTBOOK | D.A.P., BDS / AtlasBooks, Chicago Distribution Center, Consortium, Disney/Hyperion, distributor, Globe Pequot, Greenleaf Book Group, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), Ingram Publisher Services, International Publishers Marketing, Macmillan, Midpoint Trade, National Book Network (NBN), Norton, Penguin, Perseus Distribution, Publishers Group West, Publishing Trends, Random House, Red Wheel/Weiser, SCB Distributors, Simon & Schuster
While the majority of book industry coverage at the moment is focused on ebooks and the latest developments in the tablet and ereader race, Publishing Trends wanted to focus briefly on publishers’ internal structures: how are they meeting all these new digital demands from a human resources standpoint? Initially we planned to write an article…Continue Reading
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Tagged Baker & Taylor, Bob Nelson, Chantal Restivo-Alessi, David Bronstein, EMI Music, HarperCollins, Hartnick Search, ING Bank, Jeff Dodes, Jive Label Group, Kate Hartnick Elliott, LivePerson, Perseus, Peter Phillips, Publishing Trends, Random House, Samantha Cohen, Simon & Schuster, Sony
Book Industry Study Group‘s Angela Bole, welcomed attendees to the May 3rd conference at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium, which focused on how to capture and use data in both print and digital book marketing and sales. Despite a serious subject, the day’s presentations managed to be both accessible and entertaining. First up was Jake Freivald from Information Builders, who talked about how…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alan Brennert, Amazon, Angela Bole, Book Industry Study Group, Bookseer, Brian O'Leary, Camelcamelcamel.com, Charles Duhigg, Goodreads, Hillary Mantel, Information Builders, Jake Freivald, Kyle Marx, Kyushu Chung, Len Vlahos, Levy Home Entertainment, Moloka'i, NPR Fresh Air, Peter Colleridge, Readerlink Distribution Services, The Power of Habit, Wolf Hall
“Advancing the Creative Economy” was the theme of the Copyright Clearance Center’s OnCopyright 2012 conference on March 30, and an important first order of business seemed to be defining what, exactly, a creative economy is. For many, it became a matter of semantics: “piracy” and “stealing” vs. “infringement,” “individual” vs. “commercial,” “intellectual property” vs. “creative…Continue Reading
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Tagged Carol Mandel, Copyright Clearance Center, Erin McKeown, Eve Sinaiko, Everything is a Remix, Google Books, Hachette, Jewish Museum, Kirby Ferguson, Maja Thomas, Michele Woods, Microsoft, National Gallery, NYU, OnCopyright 2012, PIPA, Robert Levine, SOPA, Steven Rosenbaum, The Future of Music Coalition, Tom Rubin, US Copyright Office
Should Portland, Oregon be our touchstone for the future or the past? “The dream of the 90s is still alive in Portland” sings the anthem for the hit TV show Portlandia, celebrating the city as a cultural cul de sac stuck in another age. Then there’s WebVisions, a tech conference that originated in Portland twelve years ago…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alice Twemlow, Amber Case, Brad Smith, Carrie Brownstein, Crystal Beasley, Design Is the Problem, Donald Norman, Douglas Caldwell, Fred Armisen, Geoloqi, Hot Pepper Studios, IFC, Khoi Vinh, Land’s End, Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences, MapAttack, Mixel, Mozilla, Nathan Shedroff, Portlandia, Rich Kelley, Rosenfeld Media, Saturday Night Live, Sleater-Kinney, Steve Mann, U. S. Army Topographic Laboratory, WebVisions, Whitney Hess, Wild Flag, X-Men, Xenotran Mark II Dynamic Sand Table
With the holiday sales war over and all new devices already out on the market, much of January consisted of tallying up the sales numbers and looking to new developments in the new year. There have already been some big announcements: Apple’s digital textbook publishing, a possible spinoff of the Nook from Barnes & Noble,…Continue Reading
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Tagged American Booksellers Association, Apple, Ars Technica, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Boy Genius Report, Buy.com, Casey Johnston, Edward Nawotka, Flurry Analytics, iPad, Judith Rosen, Kindle, Kobo, Morgan Keegan, Nook, Oren Teicher, People, Play.com, Publishers Weekly, Publishing Perspectives, Rakuten, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Target, The Bookseller, The New York Times, Tim Carmody, Travis McCourt, WHSmith, Wired, Zach Epstein
New York, NY: February 1, 2012—EPM Communications, Inc.’s Content Licensing Network will incorporate Market Partners International’s Publishing Trends into the Network’s flagship publication, Content Licensing. Content Licensing reveals the latest trends, deals, and deal-makers involved in licensing media and entertainment properties across traditional and digital platforms. The Content Licensing Network, which launched earlier this year, is run…Continue Reading
It’s been over a year since the last book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, was published in the US. The trilogy’s blockbuster success promises to continue with three English-language film adaptations yet to be released (one advantage Lisbeth Salander has on Harry Potter at this point), but Publishing…Continue Reading
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Tagged Barbara Fister, Barry Forshaw, Camilla Läckberg, Death in a Cold Climate, Eirin Hagen, Faceless Killers, Gylendahl, HarperCollins, Harry Potter, Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, Kari Marstein, Knopf, Lisbeth Salander, Maj Sjöwall, Martin Berg, Millennium Trilogy, Palgrave Macmillan, Pegasus, Per Wallöö, Sarah Death, Scandinavian Crime Fiction Project, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Steven Murray, Stieg Larsson, Swedish Book Review, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The LA Times, The New Press, The Redeemer, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Vintage
With 50 talks over three days and close to 300 exhibitors, ad:tech New York is one of the world’s largest Interactive Marketing conferences. On the first day social media strategist Lynne d. Johnson invoked one of its main themes with a slide with one stark acronym: “SoLoMo”— a mashup of social, local, and mobile. They’re…Continue Reading
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Tagged ad:tech New York, Adam Broitman, Alchemy Worx, AllState, Anthony Franco, Avinash Kaushik, Blogfrog, Brafton, Caffeine, Campbell-Ewald, Chris Brogan, Christian Oestien, Circ.us, Clara Shih, Dabs.com, Dave Linabury, Dela Quist, EffectiveUI, Facebook, Fast Company, Flixmedia.tv, Google, Hearsay Social, Intuit, Ipsos OTX, Justine Jordan, Katherine Griwert, Lee Odden, Lego, Litmus, Lynne d. Johnson, Metaio.com, Morgan Stanley, Resolution Systems Inc., Rich Kelley, Rustin Banks, Steve Jobs, Twitter, Walter Isaacson
As the minutes before the National Book Awards ceremony tick down, PT was curious about the changing state of US book prizes generally. According to a 2009 white paper by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, the prize industry is growing faster than any other philanthropic sector. The business of prizes has become so large as…Continue Reading
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Tagged America COMPETES Act, Barnes & Noble, Books for a Better Life, Discover Great New Writers, ForeWord Book of the Year, Global Prize Summit, Independent Publisher Book Awards, J. Anthony Lukas Prize, Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, Katie McDonough, McKinsey & Company, National Book Awards, Nautilus Book Awards, Publishing Innovation Awards, Pulitzer, William Saroyan International Writing Prize
