While many of the major events within the publishing industry are held in the far-flung centers of business, most indie authors find it difficult to attend due to travel and cost. Fortunately, forward thinking organizations are able to intervene using available technology in order to reach a broader audience of indie authors. IndieRecon, which will take place at the end of this … [Read more...] about IndieRecon Online Event Invites All Attendees
E-Book News
eBookPlus To Embed Advertising to Create Free-But-Legal eBooks
While digital publishing in its current form is no longer in its infancy, one of the major concerns that still arises about the medium is piracy. While some argue that piracy can actually make for good business in terms of building readership and spreading an author's brand, others counter that it costs the publishing industry countless numbers in revenue each year. One thing … [Read more...] about eBookPlus To Embed Advertising to Create Free-But-Legal eBooks
Why the Penguin Merger with Random House Will Kill Overdrive
Most libraries in North American tend to do business with Overdrive to facilitate their content distribution system for ebooks, audiobooks, and video. The 3M Cloud Library system is the new kid on the block and has been around for only three years, though it tends to exclusively focus on the US market. Pearson owned Penguin used to do business with Overdrive and then severed … [Read more...] about Why the Penguin Merger with Random House Will Kill Overdrive
Amazon Now Accused of Causing Unemployment
As if the "evil empire" of book selling hasn't done enough to live up to the reputation that its critics have put forth, a new interview in the Financial Times with Waterstones' CEO James Daunt describes how Amazon is causing unemployment rates to skyrocket, especially in terms of high street booksellers. Despite the fact that employment numbers from 2010 show that more than … [Read more...] about Amazon Now Accused of Causing Unemployment
Net Minds Looks at Revitalizing Self-Publishing
There's no doubt that the face of the publishing industry is changing, and quite possibly that it has changed more in the last five years than over the entire course of its history. As digital publishing and self-publishing became more the norm rather than an arena relegated to tech geeks or authors who couldn't find publishing deals, the industry in every facet has had to race … [Read more...] about Net Minds Looks at Revitalizing Self-Publishing
How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You?
A very interesting war is being waged on books. This time it isn't about publishers and the agency model or the stigma behind self-publishing. This war is actually about the right and wrong of consuming a book that a reader already owns.Format shifting, as it's being called by some, is taking one copyrighted item that has already been purchased and reformatting it to use … [Read more...] about How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You?
Why Was Agency Pricing Established? To Save Our Bookstores
Over the course of the last five years, e-commerce giant Amazon has definitively captured the vast majority of the ebook market. When Apple decided to launch its iBooks digital storefront in 2010, the company needed an edge to be competitive. Steve Jobs met with executives from Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, Harper Collins, Random House, and Simon and Shuster. They ironed out a … [Read more...] about Why Was Agency Pricing Established? To Save Our Bookstores
US Courts Approve Random House and Penguin Merger
The proposed merger between Bertelsmann and Pearson's publishing divisions have just received approval by the US Department of Justice. This is a very important milestone for the join venture to be finalized by the 2nd half of 2013.When Pengion and Random House end up joining forces, under one roof, it will account for 1/4 of all book releases in the Western World. Thomas … [Read more...] about US Courts Approve Random House and Penguin Merger
Tizra’s Web-Based Publishing Platform Helps Establish Direct Business for Publishers
Even though ebooks and digital publishing are a relatively new concept to most consumers and in its current form has only celebrated a few birthdays, digital publishing on the web is actually a concept nearly as old as the internet itself. It is the companies who not only had a strong adoption of early digital publishing and managed to adapt to the current models who have … [Read more...] about Tizra’s Web-Based Publishing Platform Helps Establish Direct Business for Publishers
Publishers as Booksellers?
At any event in publishing, there are commonalities or themes to the discussions and panel presentations. Sometimes the themes are outright and printed in the program, but other times they are nothing more than running commentary or buzz generated by attendees throughout the event.One of the often-discussed topics among exhibitors at this year's TOC is the concept of … [Read more...] about Publishers as Booksellers?
ReadSpeaker Supports Browser-Based Content Read Aloud
Everything about Tools of Change focuses on looking ahead to the future, in this case, the future of publishing. The TOC conference is a place for forward-thinking entities involved in some arm of publishing to not only showcase what they can do, but to also highlight where they plan to take the future of books.One of the futures that has long been anticipated for digital … [Read more...] about ReadSpeaker Supports Browser-Based Content Read Aloud
Flipick and Solutions for ePub, InDesign
Flipick, part of the Mediawide group of companies, allows publishers to create fixed layout ebooks directly from InDesign in the ePub3 standard. Those InDesign files can incorporate interactivity for publication that are embedded in the ebook."The software is in a beta stage," said Flipick's representative at this year's Tools of Change conference when talking to … [Read more...] about Flipick and Solutions for ePub, InDesign
eBook Discovery Enhanced with NetGalley
Before ebooks emerged on the reading scene in such a big way, publishers had to rely on mailing out print editions of advanced reader copies of their buzz-worthy titles to book reviewers, hoping to generate consumer interest in upcoming books. Printing and shipping these ARCs proved costly and sometimes fruitless.Just as digital publishing has had a major impact on the way … [Read more...] about eBook Discovery Enhanced with NetGalley
Barnes and Noble Confirms Nook Sales Will Decrease in 2013
Barnes and Noble released a statement today that confirmed what many industry insiders have been talking about in hushed voices. The company verified today that sales of ebooks and e-readers will be less then 3 billion dollars. B&N also mentioned that in 2012, its entire digital division saw a loss of $262 million dollars.One of the big reasons Barnes and Noble is … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Confirms Nook Sales Will Decrease in 2013