BTB #198: Forrester Reports on eBook Buying Trends

Dec 5, 2010 | Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts

A year that began with the debut of the iPad is about to end with the arrival under holiday trees of all manner of eReaders. The publication of a Forrester Research paper “eBook Buying Is About to Spiral Upward” by James McQuivey, Vice President and...

BTB #197: ‘Content’ Gets A Rules Book

Nov 28, 2010 | Podcasts

“When everything else fails, read the instructions.” That was the sage advice of the Sage of Concord, Henry David Thoreau. Chris Kenneally has just finished reading the instructions for content creation and distribution in the digital age, as written by two pioneers...

BTB #196: A Web Without Cookies

Nov 21, 2010 | International, Podcasts

The Semantic Web says Tim Berners-Lee, the man who coined the is “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.” Perhaps more helpfully, it comprises “methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning – or...

BTB #195: Usability Studies in Textbook Design

Nov 14, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts

“We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in the way people read,” declares textbook editor and former English professor Michael Greer. Collaborating with Prof. Tharon Howard of Clemson University, Greer has contributed to the just-published collection,...

BTB #194: ‘Bubble Bath Reading’ Mystery Revealed

Nov 10, 2010 | Podcasts

Taking the mystery out of independent publishing, Jessica Tribble of Poisoned Pen Press reveals the truth about genre authors and how they view technology. “These are people who really have the passion for writing,” she tells Chris Kenneally. “They want to make sure...

BTB #193: Books Not Required

Nov 7, 2010 | Podcasts

At the recently-concluded 2010 IFRRO AGM, which gathered hundreds of author and publication associations and their RRO partners to Boston, publishing pundit Mike Shatzkin moderated a panel discussion, Licensing Business Models for the Future. He gave Chris Kenneally a...

BTB #192: Great Expectations For A Mobile Workplace

Oct 31, 2010 | Digital Transformation, Podcasts

Ahead of his presentation to a one-day workshop co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS, Nathan Clevenger, enterprise editor at Smartphone Magazine, tells Chris Kenneally how the mobile environment is driving change in publishing. “Mobile applications expose a lot more...

BTB #191: Putting the ‘Social’ in Media

Oct 24, 2010 | Podcasts

Web 2.0 brought a more interactive relationship between creating and consuming content than ever seen before. That interaction is shaping our lives and changing our media in sometimes fascinating, and sometimes threatening ways. Alexandra Samuel joins Chris Kenneally...

Warm-up for Miami Book Fair

Oct 17, 2010 | Best of VOC, Podcasts

On November 20, at the Miami Book Fair, CCC’s Chris Kenneally will interview Stephen Rattner, author of the just-released “Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry,” which the New York Times calls, “required...

BTB #190: A Romance With New Media

Oct 12, 2010 | Podcasts

During a podcast tutorial led by Chris Kenneally at the recent Novelists, Inc. conference, NINC President-elect Donna Fletcher agreed to an impromptu interview. She took the opportunity to explain why novelists in romance and thriller genres are early adopters of new...