Mar 6, 2011 | Digital Transformation, Events
A first-hand report on the e-book revolution from Angela James, executive editor of Carina Press, the “digital first” imprint from Harlequin. A prolific blogger, James is leading the charge to create a business model for e-books in trade publishing....
Mar 2, 2011 | Digital Transformation, Events
Yesterday, to close out the NFAIS 2011 Conference, John Blossom gave the Final Keynote, presenting his thesis of a “Second Web,” a Web that moves beyond the digital and virtual toward a Web that “Works Like the World.” The founder of Shore...
Feb 27, 2011 | Digital Transformation
Attend enough conferences on the future of publishing, and pretty soon, you start to wonder if the future of publishing is conferences about the future of publishing. The small talk and the big presentations alike often portray an industry that is diplomatically...
Feb 22, 2011 | Digital Transformation
Shortly after his keynote address to last week’s Tools of Change conference, Magellan Media’s founder and industry blogger Brian O’Leary reiterated to Chris Kenneally his cautionary thesis against elevating content over context. O’Leary explained his...
Feb 18, 2011 | Digital Transformation
One year into the iPad era, publishers, application developers and device makers remain in search of the holy grail: monetization of content. Two recent announcements from Apple and Google put their respective solutions on two divergent tracks. Joining Beyond the Book...
Feb 14, 2011 | Digital Transformation
Not so long ago, a book was an unmistakable object. Then someone came along and started digitizing content, and very soon, books were something else, something much more than ink on dead trees. That transformation, indeed the redefinition of books, matters enormously...
Feb 6, 2011 | Digital Transformation
The reasons to welcome the arrival of e-textbooks are many, say a leading textbook authors’ representative and a literary agent with extensive experience in the field. Richard Hull, executive director of the Text & Academic Authors Assoc., and his TAA...
Jan 30, 2011 | Digital Transformation, International
The world came to the 2011 Digital Book World Conference in late January. At Editis, one of France’s leading publishers, Virginia Clayssen oversees digital development. In an interview with CCC’s Chris Kenneally, she accounts for why France has not yet had...
Jan 25, 2011 | Digital Transformation
Forrester Research’s James McQuivey has opened Digital Book World 2011 this morning with results of the first annual Publishing Executive Survey. In a preview of his keynote address, McQuivey provides insight into critical areas including backlist ebook...
Jan 23, 2011 | Digital Transformation
“Books are not reading devices” warns John B. Thompson, a Sociology professor at the University of Cambridge and author of “Merchants of Culture” (Polity Press), the first major study of trade book publishing since the digital transformation...
