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. Publishers could learn from the film industry as they develop subscription services. Crime fiction is seeing more critical respect. Why is digital content…Continue Reading
The 3 million iPads sold as of June were a major topic of discussion at two conferences this month: The Big Money’s Untethered 2010: Profitable Media in the Tablet Era, and the Digital Publishing and Advertising Conference. Untethered was aimed more directly at book publishers, and its “Future of Book Publishing” panel included publishing head…Continue Reading
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Unlike the atmosphere at SXSW, the mood at the 2009 Publishing Business Conference & Expo was a bit subdued. It might have been the chilly New York weather or the beige Marriott Marquis carpeting—or maybe it was the panels reflecting the current state of the publishing industry, with titles like “Book Publishing and the New…Continue Reading
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Despite lackluster sales and the death of all things ‘e’, there is continued interest from publishers in ebooks, epublishing, and elearning. So the seventh annual seminar hosted by University of Virginia and the Library of Congress on “Publishing in the 21st Century” was very much web-focused. The keynote was given by Hungry Minds’ CEO John…Continue Reading
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