BTB #216: Publishing, Dead or Alive?

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...

BTB #214: Sharing Stories With A Message

When publishing veteran Ashley Gordon opened her Mockingbird Publishing venture last summer, she realized, “This was my opportunity to take what I’ve learned and do something that really made my heart move,” she explained recently to CCC’s Chris Kenneally. “At...

BTB #213: Two Paths, One Goal

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...

BTB #212: For E-Books, an ISBN Dilemma

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...

BTB #211: For Authors, The Brand Is A Commitment

What does it mean to an author that he or she needs to become a “brand”? It’s a commitment to readers, agree a panel of agents and publishing executives who spoke at the recent Digital Book World Conference in New York City. “The assumption used to be for many authors...

BTB #210: Why E-Textbooks Make Sense

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...