Category Archives: digital

Announcing Black Plastic Glasses: Evan Schnittman Blogs

Schnittman’s new blog. Continue reading

Posted in A-Editor's Picks, A-Featured, Blackplasticglasses, Blogs, Evan Schnittman, Media, Uncategorized, digital, ebooks | Leave a comment

Is A Book In The Library Worth Two in the Offsite Storage Facility?

Ammon ponders the fate of libraries. Continue reading

Posted in A-Featured, Dictionaries, Reference, Uncategorized, ammon shea, dictionary, digital, libary, oed, periodicals, storage | Leave a comment

Good Company Culture Comes in Small Packages

Small publishers’ culture of experimentation-by-necessity gives them a leg up on the large publishing “dinosaurs.” Continue reading

Posted in HarperStudio, Innovation, TeleRead, Tools, Uncategorized, cannongate, digital, ebooks, experimentation, marketing, organisationalculture, smallpublishers, softskull, wheatlandpress | Leave a comment

“None of this is good or bad; it just is”

Lev Grossman takes a pragmatic look at the changing state of authors, readers, and the definition of publishing: Self-publishing has gone from being the last resort of the desperate… Continue reading

Posted in Authoring, Publishing, Publishing News, Read20, Uncategorized, authors, digital, revenue, selfpublishing, webcontent | Leave a comment

iPhone App Outperforms Most Print (Computer) Books This Holiday Season

Conventional wisdom suggests that when choosing pilot projects, you pick ones with a high likelihood of success. It’s hard to argue that iPhone: The Missing Manual was a reasonable choice… Continue reading

Posted in Devices, Iphone, Sales, Uncategorized, bookpublishing, books, businessmodels, digital, digitalbooks, digitalcontent, digitalpublishing, distribution, ebooks, economics, ipodtouch, itunes, margins, marketing, mobile, salesfigures | Leave a comment

Publishers: Let the Containers Go

In a guest post at Boing Boing, Clay Shirky says publishers who focus on book lovers rather than readers are setting themselves up to fail: Businesses don’t survive in the… Continue reading

Posted in Devices, Uncategorized, books, containers, digital, ebooks, print, printbooks, readers, souvenir | Leave a comment

Experimental O’Reilly Ebook iPhone Integration with Stanza

Back in August, I showed how to read O’Reilly EPUB ebooks on an iPhone (or iPod Touch) using the popular (and free) Stanza reader app. I’m pleased to announce… Continue reading

Posted in EPub, Iphone, Stanza, Uncategorized, bundles, digital, ebooks, ipodtouch, mobile, o'reilly | Leave a comment

Redefining Professional Content and Accepting Digital’s Limitations

Scott Karp’s 10 observations about the future of media inspired a few thoughts on the shifting definition of “professional” and the limitations of digital. Continue reading

Posted in Tools, Uncategorized, advertising, amateur, community, content, digital, marketing, professional, revenuestreams, scarcity, usergeneratedcontent | Leave a comment

Sara Lloyd asciende a directora digital

Pan Macmillan reestructura su sección digital y pone a Sara Lloyd al frente.

Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized, digital, pan macmillan, sara lloyd | Leave a comment

BIBLIOBUS DIGITAL

Dentro de unos días, una gran parte del sector del libro se irá de vacaciones, más o menos días dependiendo de cómo le esté afectando personalmente la crisis. Pero como es tiempo de relax, he aquí una sugerencia para reflexionar.Dado que el camb… Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized, bibliodiversidad, digital, editores, lectura, libros | Leave a comment