5 Reasons Why E-Books Aren’t There Yet
By John C Abell on Wired: There are no two ways about it: E-books are here to stay. Unless something
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What can other industries teach us about digital?
In Part 1 of his report on the London Book Fair Digital Conference, Alastair Horne discovers what we can learn about digital content and business models from those outside the publishing industry.
Read MoreRoads? Where we're going, we don't need roads
There is a lack of skills in the publishing industry to deal with new emergent paradigms. But it’s not just skills and structure that are lacking, but culture and attitude. In a period of accelerating change we need vastly more efficient methods of developing new concepts. In this post I want to share some thoughts about some of the changes that would be required for publishers to become more agile, generalist and collaborative in an age where we are all becoming publishers, authors, creators and consumers and as such all have a voice and opinion as well as the ability to implement our own ideas.
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In case you hadn’t realised before the announcement of the Apple iPad in January, this is the decade of the eReader. The publishing industry is going through a similar transition to that of the music industry in the last decade.
In these days when you can publish direct for ereaders like the Kindle, Cool-er and soon the iPad – or just blog a story – what’s to stop anyone stealing and copying your work illegally?
Do iPad or do I Kindle?
Tom Evans is an author, author mentor, writer’s unblocker and e-publishing wizard. Follow his memes and musings on Twitter @thebookwright
Read MoreThe future of the ebook
With the introduction of ereaders last year and the imminent announcement from Apple about the much rumoured Tablet – or
Read MoreKindle 2 and the publishing revolution
Everyone’s talking about Kindle 2. To those outside the industry this must sound as opaque and mysterious a revolution as
Read Morewho needs publishers?
A quick heads-up for anyone who’s not yet seen Sara Lloyd’s excellent piece for US-based library journal, Library Trends, called
Read Morere-kindle your love of e-books
The Amazon Kindle has finally launched in the US (we need to wait a bit longer here in the UK),
Read MoreeBooks: end of the page-turner?
Interesting article in today’s Independent about eBooks – including plenty of quotes from Jeff ‘Print is Dead‘ Gomez: In just
Read Morescratch-and-sniff e-books
OK, page-sniffing blog rant alert: book fetishists, literary bathers and Margaret Atwood look away now. I hardly know where to
Read Morepublishers link up to the iPhone
Could this be the iPod moment? Or just the iPhone moment? HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it had set up a
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