Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Who shapes the future of AI translation? Why does the HarperCollins strike matter for the entire industry? How…Continue Reading
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Tagged academic research, AI, AI engines, AI translation, articles, artificial intelligence, banned books, book bans, DBW, Digital Book World, HarperCollins, HarperCollins strike, HarperCollins union, language preservation, LGBTQ, Lorraine Shanley, news, queer literature, science editors, scientific journals, self-publishing, translation
January is a great time to talk about children’s books, what with the aftermath of the MidWinter ALA and its accompanying Newbery, Caldecott, and other awards, presented earlier in the month. While publishing for the adult market has its rewards and sense of community, children’s publishing has an infectious enthusiasm and sense of mission that…Continue Reading
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Tagged 21st Century Fox, American Academy of Pediatrics, Amplify, Bonnier, Coloring book of Cards and Envelopes, common core, Curious WOrld, DBW, Digital Book World, Disney, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, Hachette, HMH, Instagram, jimmy patterson, Launch Kids, Launch Kids/DBW Conference, Lego Education, Little Bee Books, Lostmy.name, Magic Town, MeeGenius, Minecraft, National Geographic, Nosy Crow, Pinterest, Secret Card, Sesame, Unbroken, YouTube
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. As we enter the new year, we are instead posting 5 links to articles with predictions for the publishing industry in 2016. Publishing Executive makes predictions for 2016 based on 12 key words from “mobile” to “quorum.“ Publishing Technology’s CEO has 9 predictions…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Statistics from VIDA reveal that books by men were reviewed more often and sold better than books written by women over…Continue Reading
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Tagged 250words, 250words.com, 50 Shades of Grey, Amazon, Ben Loehnen, Big Bang Press, book reviews, DBW, ebooks, fan fiction, Kerry Wilkinson, Kindle Worlds, Macmillan, novella, NYT, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, self-publishing, Simon & Schuster
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. As we near the end of the year, we thought we would change things up and instead post 5 links to articles with predictions for the publishing industry in 2014. DBW’s list of Ten Bold Predictions says Barnes & Noble…Continue Reading
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Tagged 5 Links, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Big Five, Book Business Magazine, DBW, Good Ereader, Huffington Post, Nook, Penny C Sansevieri, Publishing Technology
Partners’ Corner is a place where the principals of Market Partners International can share their observations of the publishing industry for the month. For the past few months, we’ve been planning for DBW’s Launch Kids conference (presented by Publishers Launch on January 13, 2014 at The Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers), which we’ve helped…Continue Reading
The Digital Book World 2013 panels, “Sales Across Borders: Export” and “Sales Across Borders: Import” (back to back on Wednesday afternoon) were both concerned with the question of what new digital systems best allow books to travel across international boundaries—though their approaches were hardly two sides of one coin. On the Export panel, there was…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bastei Lübbe, Chitra Bopardikar, Cyrus Kheradi, DBW, Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2013, export, import, Ingram, International sales, Kelly Gallagher, Marion König, Open Road Media, Perseus, Random House
At DBW’s Publishers Launch: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital, there was no shortage of words like discoverability or access, both necessities in helping new digital kids’ products find their audiences. But as a Bowker study presented by Bookigee founder Kristen McLean and Bowker executive Carl Kulo showed, ebook adoption among kids remains modest with ebooks being the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Bookigee, Bowker, Brain Hive, Candlewick, Carl Kulo, children's publishing, DBW, Dork Diaries, Eric Huang, Gretchen Caserotti, Idea Logical, Karen Lotz, Kate Wilson, Kristen McLean, Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, Magic Town, Mara Anastas, Mike Shatzkin, myON, Neal Goff, Nosy Crow, Penguin Children’s UK, Poptropica, Publishers Launch: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital, Random Buzzers, RRKidz, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Storia
With a keynote by Robert Levine, journalist and author of Free Ride, about how the proponents of consumer access to free content are often those who use that content to sell advertising, this year’s Copyright and Technology New York conference began. A few in the audience were from book publishing – MIT’s Bill Trippe moderated…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amex, Apple, Bill Rosenblatt, Bill Trippe, Copyright and Technology New York, DBW, DRM, epub3, Free Ride, Getty Images, GiantSteps, Jim Burger, Kobo, MarkMonitor, MIT, Offir Gutelzon, open access, Robert Levine, Thomas Sehested, watermarking