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. Why hasn’t self-publishing overtaken the big houses? Metadata isn’t the end-all be-all of book search and discovery. Prime Reading’s launch…Continue Reading
The annual Book Industry Study Group (BISG) meeting took place on September 30th – coincidentally on the eve of its new Executive Director Brian O’Leary’s first day in his new job, October 3rd. Almost one hundred members and industry participants came for the program and to celebrate BISG’s 40th anniversary. Awards were also given out, the…Continue Reading
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Tagged Angela Bole, Book Industry Study Group (BISG), Brian O'Leary, Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Dominique Raccah, Firebrand, Fran Toolan, HarperCollins, Ingram Content Group, Jeff Abraham, John Ingram, Ken Brooks, Maureen McMahon, OverDrive, Peter Balis, Peter Hildick-Smith, Sourcebooks, Sree Sreenivasan, Steve Potash, Wiley
Ebooks are: (a) dead (b) undead (c) other. If you answered “all of the above,” you are more correct than you know. As spring turns to summer, not just the trees but oddly enough ebooks — through whose black heart the New York Times drove a stake last fall — are sprouting. Palm, which has…Continue Reading
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Tagged Adobe, Brian De Fiore, eInk, Gemstar, Hemingway, James Lichtenberg, Keith Titan, Microsoft, New York Times, OverDrive, Palm, Rocket eBook, S&S, Steve Potash
