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...