On-demand publishing has overtaken traditional publishing in yearly title output, signaling a surge in products like customized print-on-demand books, according to a recent Publishing Business webinar, “Customized Books: What Is The Opportunity?”
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Peter Garlid of LibriSource Inc. is the winner of the full conference pass to the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference. Congratulations, Peter! Please e-mail me back ASAP. I’ve e-mailed Peter to let him know he’s the winner and will call later today. If I haven’t heard back by 6 PM on Monday, 2/8/2010,…Continue Reading
After Ipsos/NPD, which provided consumer data to the Book Industry Study Group’s Trends, exited the market, publishers struggled to get timely—or detailed—data on their consumers, and because their customers were retailers, they had little idea of who their readers were. The data that existed was too generic and surveyors often used questionable methodologies to get…Continue Reading
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Publishing Trends is an O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing media partner, and we’re excited to announce that we are giving away one FREE pass to the conference sessions (a $1245 value)! The conference takes place February 22–24, 2010 at the New York Marriott Marquis. To enter the contest, please complete this (quick!) survey about…Continue Reading
Our invaluable annual contact sheet provides phone numbers and e-mail templates for publishers, direct mail and book clubs, accounts (wholesale/retail/online), associations, trade shows, and trade resources. Download it for free: [download id=”4″].
Angela James is the Executive Editor of Carina Press. We live in an age of want-it-now, get-it-now technology, an age where people are used to being able to adapt their entertainment to suit their schedules: DVRs, movies on demand, iTunes, game systems that provide immediate access to products, other gamers, and even movies. Consumers expect…Continue Reading
Anthony Forbes-Watson is the Managing Director of Pan Macmillan (UK). Grimly bookended by the collapses of Woolworths and Borders, 2009 was suffused with the smell of crisis and peppered with job loss announcements, but ended up being merely bad rather than catastrophic, with sales forecast to be only a little down on the year before….Continue Reading
Publishing Trends thanks marketing consultant Rich Kelley for this piece. What’s the new frontier for targeted online ads? Could the long tail go bankrupt? What does social media offer that social networks don’t? Publishers, advertisers, and service providers flocked to ad:tech at the Javits Center in early November for three days of 60 panels and…Continue Reading
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“I don’t know why, but there are often naked persons in French comics,” said Sylvain Coissard of the Sylvain Coissard Agency. He was one of the panelists at the French Publishers’ Agency’s “From Bande Dessinée to Graphic Novel: Drawing Two Traditions Together,” which took place in November at NYU’s Maison Française. Coissard was speaking about…Continue Reading
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A panel discussion on “Reading in a Digital Age” at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College engaged students and their elders through the dinner hour on November 11—with enough questions following the formal session, to keep the speakers tied up well past the program’s formal end time. Moderated by Bill Goldstein, founder of the New York Times…Continue Reading
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