Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What does Scribd’s audiobook launch mean for Audible? Is the international rights market expanding for children’s books? Should ebooks…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Audible, Children's book publishing, digital watermarking, DRM, ebooks, libraries, non-English, Scribd, social, survey
At SWIPE, the Magazine Publishers Association conference on “tablets, e-readers and smartphones,” held at the Grand Hyatt on March 20, tablets dominated the discussion. Not surprisingly, the “new iPad” was the focus of much adulation – especially given magazine publishers’ delight at how well ads looked in the pixelated screen. But there was also concern…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Anthony Cerretani, Apple, Backpacker, Bruce Bell, Calloway, Consumer Reports, EMarketer, Flipboard, Gael Towey, Google Currents, iPad, Jason Snell, Kindle Fire, Macworld, Magazine Publishers Association, Martha Stewart, National Geo, Nook, Paul Reynolds, Paul Verna, SWIPE 2012, Windows 8, Yahoo’s Livestand
At TOC on Wednesday afternoon, we attended “Youth and Creativity: Emerging Trends in Self-expression and Publishing,” a session by Evangeline Haughney (Adobe) and Bill Westerman (Create with Context). They hung out with real teenagers in their homes to get a look at their creative processes. When choosing which teens to follow, they looked for those…Continue Reading
It’s hard to remember a time when Netflix didn’t seem like a good idea. The company opened its first distribution center, in San Jose, CA, in 1998, and initially aimed to create the typical Blockbuster experience: Each rental was $4, plus $2 for postage, and there were late fees. In a 2002 interview with Wired…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Amy Pawlowski, Blockbuster, Booksfree, Bookspan, BookSwim, Cleveland Public Library, Doug Ross, Dustin Hubbard, ebooks, EPUB, Eric Ginsberg, Georg Richter, Hastings, Ingram Digital, libraries, Miriam Axel-Lute, MP3, National Retail Federation, Netflix, Newark Public Library, OverDrive, Pamela Turner Taylor, Paperspine, Reed Hastings, Sony Reader, Strollerderby, Total eSource, Vroman's, Wired
David Rothman Founder, Teleread.org Sure, Oprah loves the Kindle, Amazon’s gizmo for reading electronic books, even if it looks a bit like a Soviet-made adding machine. And a second model probably will be on the way—in fact, perhaps two. We just might see an econo-Kindle and a large-screened version for students. Forbes is so excited…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Amazon, Android, David Rothman, digital rights management, DRM, EPUB, eReader, Forbes, Google, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Oprah, Pan Macmillan, Plastic Logic, Sony Reader, Stanza, Teleread, Tools of Change
During summer’s first month, the much debated future of publishing was, well, debated some more at venues across the country. The much-reported O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in San Jose, featured an array of stellar presentations running the gamut from “the book is dead,” to “the book is gloriously alive!” Back east, software producer Klopotek…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, ALA, Coca Cola, Dane Neller, David Lipsey, Digital Asset Delivery, Disney, Espresso Book Machine, Google, HarperCollins, Jason Epstein, Kevin Flannery, Klopotek, Marianne Nebel, Maricopa County, Mechanism for Unlimited Metadata, Mercedes Benz, Mitch Grossman, New York Public Library, Norton, O'Reilly Tools of Change, On Demand Books, Pearson, Random House, SAP, Science Industry and Business Library, Vince Benenati
Like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the passage to the digital realm can be a vulnerable and tremulous thing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the quantum mechanical realm of trade ebooks. The problem du jour: can ONIX, the electronic standard used for the last five years to send bibliographic data (title, author,…Continue Reading
Like most publishers’ ebook expectations in this deflated era of digital publishing, Seven Stories Press had fairly unspectacular ones. They dutifully digitized their files. They hung out their e-shingle. They even wrangled a way to sell ebooks directly from their site. And the results trickled in. “Tiny” is the word one executive used. Even Noam…Continue Reading
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Tagged 9-11, Adobe, Amazon, Anthony Bourdain, Ardy Khazaei, Carol Fitzgerald, Cliff Guren, Cory McCloud, David Steinberger, Fox, Gemstar, GiantChair, HarperCollins, HarperTempest, iPod, iTunes, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kate Tentler, Lars Reilly, Microsoft, Mike Segroves, Noam Chomsky, Palm Reader, pdassi.de, PerfectBound, Seven Stories Press, Simon & Schuster, The Book Report Network, WH Smith
Ebooks are: (a) dead (b) undead (c) other. If you answered “all of the above,” you are more correct than you know. As spring turns to summer, not just the trees but oddly enough ebooks — through whose black heart the New York Times drove a stake last fall — are sprouting. Palm, which has…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Brian De Fiore, eInk, Gemstar, Hemingway, James Lichtenberg, Keith Titan, Microsoft, New York Times, OverDrive, Palm, Rocket eBook, S&S, Steve Potash
Now that a flock of formerly high-flying technology vendors has gone down in flames (Reciprocal and Digital Goods: remember them?), it may seem odd that a 50-person business based in London should be winging toward the publishing sector. But that’s just what SealedMedia is doing, having scored $16.5 million in a third round of funding…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Cavendish Publishing, Congressional Quarterly, Digital Goods, Harcourt, ipicturebooks.com, Martin lambert, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, Pearson Education, Reciprocal, Reed, SealedMedia, Time Warner
