Good e-Reader first caught up with ebook distribution platform Red Shelf at the BookExpo America publishing event in New York, and sat down today with co-founder and CEO Greg Fenton to discuss what changes and updates the company has undergone in the last six months. Apart from a shift of only working from PDF files of ebooks, the market focus of Red Shelf has also shifted to … [Read more...] about Red Shelf Distribution Platform Targets University Bookstores with Digital Content
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Paperight Spreads Book Access by Reverting from Digital to Paper
One of the startups featured at today's Startup Showcase at the CONTEC conference, part of the events surrounding the Frankfurt Book Fair, is Paperight, a company that seems to fly in the face of everything that is happening in publishing at the moment. Not only is Paperight working to put print editions in reader's hands rather than the more affordable, more accessible digital … [Read more...] about Paperight Spreads Book Access by Reverting from Digital to Paper
HP and Mass-Market Print-On-Demand
The early predictions for almost every facet of digital publishing have proven to be as beneficial as once believed, especially in the areas of digital textbooks, widespread access to self-publishing possibilities, and even the gains made in ebook library lending. But one of the earlier promises for digital publishing was the concept of the stand-alone kiosk-based book printer, … [Read more...] about HP and Mass-Market Print-On-Demand
Online Vendors and Right of First Sale
Indie authors who are savvy enough to check around the internet at the various online book retailers' sites may have found some surprising books available: their own. Third party vendors using online storefronts have sprung up on various retail sites that sell authors' print editions at an astounding markup over the authors' own sales' pages, sometimes listing CreateSpace … [Read more...] about Online Vendors and Right of First Sale
In-Store Book Printing Comes to Retail Locations
OnDemand Books unveiled exciting kiosk-based technology in the last couple of years with its user friendly Espresso Book Machines. These print-on-demand interfaces potentially have the opportunity to change the book industry by allowing bookstores to offer almost limitless works without having to stock expensive inventory and ship heavy titles to their physical locations. … [Read more...] about In-Store Book Printing Comes to Retail Locations
Singularity & Co. is Saving Sci-Fi Through Digital Publishing
While current science fiction writers are enjoying the wealth of opportunities that digital publishing affords its authors, last week’s opening of the New York City brick-and-mortar bookstore Singularity & Co. is doing more than giving authors a platform for their new works. Rather, it aims to revive out of print and lost titles through ebook formats.“We started with a … [Read more...] about Singularity & Co. is Saving Sci-Fi Through Digital Publishing
Paperight Bringing Books to Outlying Africa
Digital publishing has been arguably hailed as the future of reading due to its ability to topple so many of the barriers to reading. Issues like censorship, environmental impact, access to reading materials, language and translation concerns, and more, could all be alleviated with the technology behind reading.But Paperight seeks to make a return not only to physical … [Read more...] about Paperight Bringing Books to Outlying Africa
Bowker Study Shows It’s a Good Time to Be a Book
Despite the previous dire warnings about where the industry may be headed in the days of print-versus-digital upheaval, Bowker, a leading source of information on the book industry as a whole, released its findings from its 2011 annual report. The results showed that the print industry grew by six percent that year, the largest growth in four years, but there’s a caveat: the … [Read more...] about Bowker Study Shows It’s a Good Time to Be a Book
Print-On-Demand: The Future of Publishing? A Talk with Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis, literary agent and founder of the oldest independent ebook publishing company E-Reads, recently posted an article for Digital Book World on where print-on-demand can potentially take the publishing industry and what price barriers are currently stopping it from faring as well as it potentially can. Curtis spoke with GoodeReader today about where POD can lead the … [Read more...] about Print-On-Demand: The Future of Publishing? A Talk with Richard Curtis
Open Road, Ingram Grow Into Retail Book Offerings
With the fast paced growth of digital publishing as a concept, it can be hard to keep up with the information and terminology of the industry, especially since there are still two distinct arms of that electronic industry. Some watchers may be well versed in what digital publishing brings to self-published and indie authors, tools like ebook formatting and distribution, small … [Read more...] about Open Road, Ingram Grow Into Retail Book Offerings
BookBaby Brings New Services to Indie Authors
GoodEReader has covered news and interviews with BookBabyin the past because they have shown themselves to be a company to watch in self- and digital publishing. With both print and ebook packages, as well as several other branches of the company that work in music distribution, website hosting, and more, they seem to be quietly seeking to be an all-encompassing provider for … [Read more...] about BookBaby Brings New Services to Indie Authors
Espresso Book Machine and POD’s Digital Arm
One of the surprises of the panel discussions at today’s Digital Book World conference was the amount of talk about print-on-demand, both of its benefits and its drawbacks. While some of the talk was about how not enough emphasis is being put on POD as a viable program option for authors, and more than one industry professional maintained the opinion that print-on-demand will … [Read more...] about Espresso Book Machine and POD’s Digital Arm
Penguin to Use Print-On-Demand To Develop Virtual Inventory
Penguin Group (USA) has signed a deal with Quad/Graphics to eliminate some of the typical pitfalls that affect the publishing industry every year, one of the greatest, perhaps, being excess inventory. Until now, a typical print run of a title has been a gamble for the publisher, who wants to not only meet consumer demand while not producing greater output than necessary; the … [Read more...] about Penguin to Use Print-On-Demand To Develop Virtual Inventory
HarperCollins Expands its Imprints with Thomas Nelson, Inc.
HarperCollins Publishers, one of the largest English-language publishers worldwide and a highly recognized name in the industry, is set to acquire an equally respected name in publishing, specifically inspirational titles, Thomas Nelson. While both companies have a long history—dating back to publishing in the late 1700s for Nelson—and this isn’t the first cooperative effort … [Read more...] about HarperCollins Expands its Imprints with Thomas Nelson, Inc.
OnDemand Books Provides the Technology to Run Digital Publishing
Dane Neller, CEO of On Demand Books, which produces the software and machinery for the Espresso Book Machine, had a specific goal in mind for the BookExpo America 2011 event: to convince publishers that giving customers and book retailers the power to print any of its almost 7 million titles directly at the point of sale was a good idea.“BookExpo was everything we hoped, it … [Read more...] about OnDemand Books Provides the Technology to Run Digital Publishing