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"E-Book Standards" - really?

Submitted by Richard Stephenson on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 17:31

In the jostle for market share in the tablet space Amazon is betting it will sell a great deal of content through the Kindle Fire as unlike its fierce competitor Apple it does not make money on its hardware sales. Read more »

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What are we waiting for?

Submitted by Jakob Harden on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 10:22

With less than a 2 % market share, e-books are still to come in Denmark. 

The year 2011 saw a small breakthrough for e-books in Denmark.  However, we are still waiting for the big sales figures to kick in. While we are waiting, some questions are vital. Who will drive the Danish e-book market? How to deal with pricing? What kinds of business models will suit the digital book market? And how can we embrace the new possibilities? Read more »

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Lost In Transition

Submitted by Martyn Daniels on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 16:07

The ISBN, ISSN, BIC and BISC codes and jacket images have all helped the trade, but do they still matter as much in the digital and direct marketing era? Read more »

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The direct-to-consumer checklist

Submitted by darin.brockman on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 09:27

With direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce websites a growing feature of the UK publishing / bookselling scene, in the wake of the success of these sites in the US, I have a few tips on what and what not to do with regard to user engagement during the checkout process. There are many ways to enhance publisher sites - book reviews, author blogs, author events and other promotional activities, newsletters, competitions, reader forums, etc. Read more »

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Time for publishers to get (even more) social

Submitted by 4fifty1 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 14:52

You might not know it yet but January 10th 2012 was a big day for the internet and everyone who accesses information through Google.
 
January 10th was the day that Google introduced* what they are calling Google Search Plus Your World (which most commentators are now referring to simply as Social Search).
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The Book App is dead. Again.

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 18:25

News reaches our shores that "The love affair with apps is officially over". This is the conclusion drawn by Forrester and Digital Book World and presented at their New York conference by James McQuivey. Read more »

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A Question and Some Random Observations

Submitted by DonLinn on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 12:09

I’ve spent the last two and one-half days with about 1500 of my closest friends at Digital Book World 2012, this week’s entry into the publishing conference sweepstakes. The conference has grown tremendously in terms of attendance, number of sponsors and breadth of programming over its three-year life and along with some very good speakers and panels, provides an excellent networking opportunity. (Disclosure: I’m a conference junkie and this is one of eight or ten I’ll attend this year. Read more »

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Optimism on the wane at Digital Book World as Amazon animus grows

Submitted by Gayle Feldman on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 10:23

The book business is “like the wild west. Everyone wants to be everything", Hyperion publisher Ellen Archer said to 1500-plus attending Digital Book World in New York on Tuesday.  Where is separation between author, publisher, agent, retailer these days? Read more »

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Don't be afraid, don't be very afraid

Submitted by Philip Jones on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 15:32

As Digital Book World -- the first of the two big post-Christmas US e-book conferences -- opens, last week's education announcement by Apple shows how easy it is now for any of the big digital companies to hijack the publishing conversation. Read more »

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What Apple’s textbook vision means for publishers

Submitted by Richard Stephenson on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 09:35

 

In New York last week, Apple announced their big play for the textbook market. It consists of three elements: a new iBooks Author tool, an update to the iBooks app, and an update to the iTunes University app.

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