In the publishing world, regime change is underway. It’s not happening in Tahrir Square or even in Times Square. The old is giving way to the new in the virtual square, and players like Ingram Content Group have declared themselves on the side of the new regime. In his role as Ingram’s Chief Content Officer, [...]
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BTB #280: The Tablet Generation
The world’s first generation of tablet-using children is toddling toward day care, pre-school, and kindergarten with their e-readers tucked into their backpacks. These kids and their e-book usage habits may have a great deal to tell a generation of publishers who only thought an apple was something you brought to school for the teacher. “Children [...]
BTB #277: A Book Apart
If you attend a publishing conference these days, you’ll hear about curation, a critical element in publishing that puts someone else – usually an editor – in the driver’s seat, deciding what you will read. Now comes BookRiff, a Vancouver based start-up that wants to make you the creator. As CEO Rochelle Grayson tells CCC’s [...]
BTB #276: Publishers Face Future With Growing Concern
This morning, on opening day of the 2012 Digital Book World Conference + Expo, James L. McQuivey, Ph.D., Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, detailed a survey of publishing executives that sees declining enthusiasm about their business chances in the e-book era. “People are generally optimistic still, but that optimism is waning,” McQuivey [...]
BTB #274: Measuring the E-book Market
The e-book revolution is underway, and moving beyond North America. Using actual data – and not forecasts – The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections, is considered an important step to understanding the global impact of this watershed publishing moment. “We saw that reading devices, as well as tablet devices, have been very, [...]
BTB #272: The HybridBook Arrives
Once upon a time, there were only two kinds of books: Good books, and all the others. In recent years, though, books have really started to branch out. Soon enough, it’s going to get pretty tough to say what is, “a book” – or what isn’t “a book.” While printed books endure, many wonder whether [...]
BTB #264: Setting Goals For Self-Publishing
The work of a book author has long been a solitary one. But in 2011, more authors are on their own than ever before – and many like it that way. From Amanda Hocking to Seth Godin – who each have recently self-published best-selling books – the ranks of DIY writers have swelled. As the [...]
BTB #262: Reading in the Key of E
Recorded live on Sunday, November 20, at 2011 Miami Book Fair International, a global look at books and reading in the digital age. Featured speakers are Ami Greko of Kobo, and Ana Maria Cabanellas, Argentine publisher and leading figure in the International Publishers Assoc.
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 “Digital Book World” was neither speculative, nor about the [...]
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 believes authors now hold the cards and must be up to the [...]
