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The Digital Crossroads

Submitted by Publishing Tech... on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 19:01

As the publishing industry immerses itself in what is fast becoming something of a digital revolution, publishers need to remain well-grounded and consider their 360° strategy whilst remaining flexible and open-minded, says Publishing Technology plc’s CEO, George Lossius. Read more »

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Looking forward to FutureBook 2010: but are booksellers?

Submitted by Philip Jones on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 15:38

On the eve of the FutureBook conference, I have been reflecting on how booksellers—small and large—can participate in the digital revolution. Read more »

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Review: The Adventures of Simon Pegg and.... iPhone app

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 13:10

Writer and illustrator Mike Topping reviews Simon Pegg's iphone app for FutureBook: Deep in the bowels of a mock-tudor manor house somewhere in North London, a suave, buff superhero sits in his cavernous, tricked-out superhero lair. On the bank of giant screens before him: a YouTube video of a farting baby. Read more »

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Futurebook 09/10 - what's another year?

Submitted by Alastair Horne on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 20:43

On the eve of the second Futurebook conference, a comparison with its predecessor shows how rapidly the industry is developing... Read more »

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The Beatles and The Agency Model

Submitted by Tom Williams on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 17:32

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To E the best

Submitted by Philip Jones on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 18:22

The lack of visibility over which digital books are selling and in what kind of volume is likely to become one of the key issues of 2011. Nielsen BookScan knows this, and so does the New York Times. Read more »

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Review: Jasper Fforde's The Last Dragonslayer enhanced e-book

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 09:59

Writer Kathryn Eastman reviews The Last Dragonslayer enhanced e-book for Futurebook: In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Read more »

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Facing the first truly electronic Christmas as an Independent Publisher

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 15:50

Steve Emecz runs independent London publishers MX Publishing specialising in NLP and therapy books. He talks us through the huge growth in e-book sales over 2010, what he anticipates for Christmas and into 2011: We are facing the first truly electronic Christmas trading period in the book publishing industry, and looking back on the last twelve months it has been an incredible period of change.

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Agency backlash

Submitted by Philip Jones on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 10:57

For the past couple of months we have been reporting the ongoing struggle over the adoption of the agency model in the UK, with retailers and publishers seemingly on opposing sides of an argument that will govern the way we think about and sell e-books for years to come. One party we've hitherto neglected to mention in greater detail are the agents, but without these literary gatekeepers on side the model will surely collapse—even before the Competition Commission swats it down. Read more »

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More From the Crow's Nest

Submitted by Nick Harkaway on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 21:39

Following on from my discussions with Andrew Robinson, then leader of the Pirate Party UK, I have had a brief exchange with his successor, Loz Kaye. Thanks to both for being prepared to come to what is surely foreign territory and give their views.

I have - as you might imagine - questions and disagreements I'd love to pursue, but that's a conversation which will run and run over the next few decades. So here you are: more from the Crow's Nest. Read more »

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