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BTB #261: Digital Book World On the Move
On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs held up an iPad for the first time, and a global audience held its collective breath. One segment of that audience were publishing professionals gathered in a New York City hotel. The timing couldn’t have been better: something called a...
PW’s Week Ahead 11.18.11
With Thanksgiving – and Black Friday – approaching fast, PW’s Andrew Albanese attended the Association for Corporate Growth's second annual retail conference this week. As he reports in Monday’s Retail Nation Column, “Flat is the new up.” Albanese also tells CCC’s...
BTB #260: Previewing Copyright and Technology Conference
Copyright and technology have always been indivisible, whether the technology is the printing press or the iPad. Publishers and authors from Mark Twain to J.K. Rowling have struggled to protect their work from infringement, and while innovation may sometimes offer...
PW’s Week Ahead 11.11.11
This week, Kobo learns to say, “konnichiwa,” and Nook moves into the tablet market. Within weeks of rolling out its new tablet, Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has acquired Kobo for a hefty $315 million, Andrew Albanese reports. Rakuten is an international...
BTB #259: B&N’s Riggio Keynotes PubWest 2011
Just ahead of an announcement from Barnes & Noble for a tablet-version of its Nook e-book reader, company chairman Len Riggio declared in a keynote address for the 2011 PubWest Conference, “We are committed as ever to the future of our bookstores, and to bookstores in...
BTB #258: How Social Media Is Keeping Alive the Journal Article
Scholarly communication is rapidly changing, and information managers in private companies and other sectors are finding new ways to serve their users. Social media, mobile devices, data mining, semantic technologies and other developments are creating a whole new...
Les réseaux sociaux, un nouvel allié pour l’article scientifique
La communication scientifique est en train de changer très rapidement, et les professionnels de l’information dans les entreprises privées et d’autres secteurs cherchent des nouvelles façons d’offrir des services à leurs usagers. Les réseaux sociaux, les appareils...
PW’s Week Ahead 11.04.11
On Thursday, Amazon jumped into the digital book lending business, announcing the launch of Kindle Owners Lending Library for Amazon Prime members. PW's Features Editor Andrew Albanese runs through what's to like, and what's not to like, for publishers and authors...
Best of BTB: The Writing Game
It’s late October, and while “the boys of summer” play out their last innings, professional and college football teams keep cheering crowds in their seats even as temperatures fall. And everywhere, the fans pore over the best in sports journalism. “I don’t want to...
PW’s Week Ahead 10.28.11
With a new e-reading device arriving this week on the market, every book you read could have its own network. PW Features Editor Andrew Albanese tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally what he heard when Kobo's Matt Welch and Jason Gamblen stopped by the PW offices to show off...
BTB #257: Coker The Barbarian
Ahead of his keynote address this weekend to the annual conference of Novelists, Inc., Smashwords founder Mark Coker tells CCC's Chris Kenneally who he fears in today's turbulent publishing times. Hint: It's not the Big 6. A self-styled "barbarian at the gates," Coker...
PW’s Week Ahead: 10.21.11
Competition heats up in the e-reader/tablet market as Kobo introduces the determinedly "open" Vox reader, built on the Android 2.3 operating system. "[Kobo] has now made openness part of the deal," PW's Features Editor Andrew Albanese notes. "This is a big, big step...