Jeff Jaffe, CEO of WC3 spoke today at the Tools of Change conference in New York. His main point that he tried to get across during his keynote was "that publishing = web and web = publishing." Web people tend to understand this concept, but many people in the publishing industry do not. 20 years ago the web came into being and became an additional form of publishing, but no … [Read more...] about Tools of Change – Afternoon Keynote With Jeff Jaffe
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Goodreads’ CEO Otis Chandler Presents Data on Book Discovery
One of the most pressing obstacles for authors, publishers, book sellers, and industry watchers is that of book discovery. With so much content on the market, both from traditional and self-publishers, how are readers expected to connect with great content and more importantly, continue to be consumers? Otis Chandler, founder and CEO of Goodreads, spoke at a presentation on … [Read more...] about Goodreads’ CEO Otis Chandler Presents Data on Book Discovery
Tools of Change – Publishing in the Age of Globalization
The workshop was presented by Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He said that the story of the last 5 years in publishing is the story of Apple, Amazon, Kobo, and their internationalization. Kobo announced a deal with a Brazilian company and the night of the launch party Google opened its Brazilian ebook store and 35 minutes later Amazon opened one of … [Read more...] about Tools of Change – Publishing in the Age of Globalization
The Digital Book Market: A Segmented Approach
This was a panel on the education market. Jim Hamilton from InfoTrends spoke and said that the overall printed book volume is in decline. By "printed book" he means books printed on the old-fashoned printing press. Run length is declining and more custom books are being printed. Digitally printed books, however, are increasing as market forces drive printing to one-off, and … [Read more...] about The Digital Book Market: A Segmented Approach
Tools of Change – Copia Talks about Improving Your Margins
Seth Kaufman, Copia Interactive. Copia makes its platform available to people who want to compete with Amazon and Google. They are in 900 campus bookstores and launched a bookstore for Parents magazine. One of the unique things about the platform is that it has enabled marginal annotations that you can share with others. The idea that margins exist and can be shared is a … [Read more...] about Tools of Change – Copia Talks about Improving Your Margins
Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks
Babur Habib, co-founder of educational software and digital textbook designer Kno, was on hand at Tools of Change to speak with GoodEReader about its recent launch of the Kno Advance platform, the anticipated follow up to the earlier release of the Kno Me interactive learning dashboard. With this week's announcement about Kno Advance and its three distinct components, … [Read more...] about Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks
QBend on Providing Publisher Solutions
One of the concerns discussed at this morning's keynote addresses at the Tools of Change conference in New York was the concept of the "walled garden" of online book retailers. This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the … [Read more...] about QBend on Providing Publisher Solutions
Tools of Change – Keynotes
Tim O'Reilly, of course, runs the show and this is the seventh edition of the conference. He started Tools of Change because O'Reilly needed to look to the future. eBooks are multiplying, but even more interesting is the fact that print has not gone away and it looks like the industry is coming to some kind of equilibrium. Importantly, the fear that a new thing is a bad thing … [Read more...] about Tools of Change – Keynotes
Open Standards in the Walled Garden – Epub3 Support Is Broken
Amenda Gomm and Tom McClusky of Digital Bindery presented the results of their testing of Epub 3 elements on various reading platforms. Some elements worked and some didn't. For metadata, Epub 3 offers a lot: container, publication, structure, and content. Focusing on the publication metadata, there are many optional elements, but when they put these elements into a document … [Read more...] about Open Standards in the Walled Garden – Epub3 Support Is Broken
Tools of Change Conference 2013 Underway with Future Thinking
As this year's eagerly awaited TOC got underway in New York, a number of industry leaders took to the stage to launch the conference with the morning's first keynotes. Making an appearance for the first time in several years was Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, who brought attendees up to speed on how the print market and ebook market are faring, essentially putting to rest any … [Read more...] about Tools of Change Conference 2013 Underway with Future Thinking