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Just say no - but not always

Submitted by Simon Rosenheim on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:19

It's hard saying no. And also possibly counter-intuitive. But if I had a pound for every time I've said something along the lines of, "actually, I don't think your book, An Illustrated History of Central Uzbekistani Cookery will be a very commercial eBook/ePub/iBook/App", then I'd be more profitable than your average illustrated publisher. Read more »

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FutureBook Innovation Awards shortlist announcement

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Tue, 10/30/2012 - 16:39

I am delighted to announce the FutureBook Innovation awards shortlist. I'm also very pleased to announce our awards sponsors are Kobo.

We received 221 entries from 19 different countries. As well as the UK and US, entries have come from far and wide, including: Israel, Norway, Australia, Croatia, India, South Africa, Singapore, Germany and more. Read more »

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Whodunnit: Amazon, DRM and VAT

Submitted by Philip Jones on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 17:20

In publishing's own version of Cluedo, who or what is the biggest villain? Read more »

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"We're all working twice as hard as we used to"

Submitted by Anthony Forbes ... on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 11:14

When asked why we reorganised our senior team at Pan Macmillan at the end of May, I explained that it wasn’t an end in itself but an important step on a long journey. Read more »

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The Paperback is Dead - Long Live The Paperback

Submitted by steveemecz on Thu, 10/18/2012 - 08:22

Textr Beagle enters the ebook reader market with an £8 device, Kindle has a gorgeous new version, Nook comes to the UK. Is that the last death throes of the paperback we hear? Nah. Read more »

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A Nook start

Submitted by Philip Jones on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 15:50

There are many good reasons for hoping Barnes & Noble has a successful launch of its Nook devices and UK shop, but the news last week that this roll-out has been delayed by two weeks does not augur well. It was Profile's Michael Bhaskar who said back in August that the company needed to make a "big splash", and one hopes that it still can. Read more »

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The Ebook Design Features Grid

Submitted by Baldur Bjarnason on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 14:57

Introduction

At Tools of Change – Frankfurt last week, I and Dan Rhatigan did a talk on design and typography in e-reading. Read more »

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The Road to Discoverability Part 1 – Metadata, SEO and Serendipity

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 19:52

I was asked to chair a panel at Tools of Change conference last week on Discoverability and it was a theme that emerged time and again across the whole of Frankfurt Book Fair. I thought I’d share the research I did beforehand with links to useful articles.   Read more »

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Online Book Launch for Michael Freeman

Submitted by Adam Juniper on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 12:58

Much is written about "marketing on a budget", but more often than not it seems that the advice is still despenced by those whose concept of 'limited' is somewhat inflated. Ilex, however, have come up with a novel and exciting idea which can be implemented for very little indeed – potentially hardware you already have in the office – the online book launch. Read more »

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Two digital days in Frankfurt

Submitted by Philip Jones on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 16:41

Ecosystems and the discoverability gap have been the main themes running through the two pre-Frankfurt digital conferences, Publishers Launch and TOC, with how publishers add value, pricing, piracy, and inevitably DRM not too far behind.
Concerns over the big tech players and their customer lock-in strategies were aired at Publishers Launch, where we learned that Amazon's market share of a customer's book purchases trebles once that customer acquires a Kindle (a worrying stat for Waterstones). Read more »

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