The following post is written by our guest blogger, Mark Bertils, who, when he’s not leaping over buildings in a single bound, blogs over at http://indexmb.com/.
BIC Releases Recommendations for E-Book IDs
Book Industry Communication (the UK equivalent of BNC or the BISG) has released their recommendations on dealing with ISBN assignment for e-books.
Nic Boshart 2009 in Review: Digital Publishing's GED
Get Me Print-On-Demand Stat!
Looking Ahead to 2010
The Mobile Internet and Thou
Morgan Stanley has made available a massive research project that looks at the rise of the mobile internet, contextualizing the research with the thesis that:
I found it instructive to read through and contemplate these ideas from an ebook perspective especially with the recent kobo news. Below are the 8 themes that emerge from the research.
SalesData Redux
A little over 4 years ago BookNet Canada released the ‘original’ BNC SalesData. Over the last four years the Canadian Book Industry has used SalesData extensively as a data gathering and mining tool. However, during those 4 years our users started using SalesData in ways we couldn’t have foreseen when we designed and released the original service. And to keep up with them we needed to do some serious re-working of the system’s underlying architecture. At the same time (hey…why not?) we decided to add new functionality and streamline much of the application.
The ACP's CPDS Digital Publishing Workshop
On December 9th and 10th I attended the ACP ’s CPDS (Canadian Publishers Digital Services) Digital Publishing Workshop, which focused on real solutions for the average Canadian publisher. I’m a BookNetter and not a publisher, but I managed to sneak my way into this workshop after I agreed to speak at it—more on that to follow.
This two-day workshop dived into the dirt of ePub production on day one and focused on practical solutions for digital workflow on day two.
Living News From Google, Times, & WaPo: What the Web Was Made For
Such a cool idea at Google Labs. Living Stories is RSS on steroids. The tool gathers together all stories on a breaking news topic, throws in timelines, filters and tags so you can see what kind of content it is and displays it all on one clean-looking webpage.
The Girl with the Global Importation Scandal
The NY Times has uncovered an unconventional, if not totally unheard of, buying habit among US booksellers who want to sell the latest Stieg Larsson and don’t want to wait 6 more months for the American edition to come: buy it from Amazon.co.uk and jack up the price to cover costs.
