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At the Digital Book World in New York, one of the biggest sessions had to do with the cost and benefits of adopting EPUB3 and HTML5 into publishing pipelines. Peter Balis, Director Digital Business Development, of JohnWiley said that "EPUB3  from a  marketing standpoint, has all the new enhancements that allow us to have greater increased functionality. MathML is especially … [Read more...] about Evolution of Standards and Formats: The Costs and Benefits of EPUB3 and HTML5 Adoption

  The Digital Book World conference started today in New York City and this particular session was dealing with some of the new data coming in for the Kids Book segment of the publishing industry. Alison Bryant, Founder & President, PlayScience talked about a recent study done in partnership with Forbes owned Digital Book World. He mentioned that the first … [Read more...] about The ABC’s of Kids & eBooks: New Data and Research on the Children’s Book Market

  The Digital Book World conference in New York is currently happening and Frommer's talked about its gravitation from printed books to online HTML5 editions. The company talked about moving completely away from PDF as a standard. The technical infrastructure for the project was designed and programmed by Inkling. There are a number of benefits from moving in this … [Read more...] about Case Study: How Frommer’s Transitioned from Print Books to HTML5 eBooks

Michael Cader, Creator, Publishers Lunch, was the Moderator of this session on investing in the publishing industry. He started off by saying  that publishing is undergoing a wholesale rearrangement of assets and ownership. Some examples of this is the merger of Penguin and Random House. Also B&N has been collecting investment capital and McGraw Hill has sold their … [Read more...] about Digital Book World: Investing in the Publishing Industry

At the Digital Book World conference in New York City, two industry leaders sat down and discussed the semantics of ebook pricing, and how it is currently affecting the industry and looking into the inner workings. Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, was the moderator and discussed his site developing their own best seller list that took the price of … [Read more...] about eBook Pricing: State of Play and Analysis

  At the Digital Book World Conference in New York, Teddy Goff, Digital Director, Obama Campaign, led a session on what Publishers can learn from his 2012 presidential campaign. Teddy had a great amount of experience on the issue and worked on both the initial 2008 campaign and then the 2012 followup. Teddy said that "In 2008, Facebook was much smaller and Twitter … [Read more...] about What Publishers Can Learn from President Obama’s 2012 Campaign

[Transcription] David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO, F+W Media, Inc.,Moderator:  2012 was the year of the tablet.  e-Readers are more immersive. Mobile is the next great trend. Mobile leads to an increase in the application market.  In the US, we are seeing fewer and fewer bookshelves and this leads to challenges of discoverability.  Publishers had to hire more and more … [Read more...] about Digital Book World: A CEO’s View of the Future Redux: Lessons Learned, Future Forecasts

At the Digital Book World conference in New York, James McQuivey, Vice President & Principal Analyst, of Forrester Research, talked about some recent survey results. He said that "As we enter 2013, Nook sales are slowing down and Kindle sales are increasing. Apple crossed the 120 million iPad sales mark worldwide, which is a very big deal. Top publishers report that more … [Read more...] about Publishing Industry Forecast: Results of the 2012 Publishing Executive Survey