BookNet News

Web-First Workflow: Confluence Proof-of-Concept

Back in May, Noah blogged about the potential for Confluence by Atlassian to work as a web-first xml workflow solution. His post put Confluence up alongside WordPress from SFU’s Book of MPub (full disclosure: I worked with John Maxwell in 2009 on Start With the Web and still do some related work today) as a contender. Really, any CMS/wiki can work, it’s just a matter of how well it works and whether it works for you.

Printed Catalogues Makin’ My Life Difficult

PubFight, publishing’s favourite pastime, is not all fun and games. It takes a hard-working Marketing Manager to pull together the master list for the Fakefurt Book Fair. I know, that sounds easy—but it’s not! It’s a pain in the butt, and I blame the printed catalogue.

Auction Update: Simon & Schuster and Scholastic

PubFight auction results from Scholastic and Simon and Schuster are in. Because of the outstanding auctions, we can’t tell you what the names of top titles are yet (I’m sure everyone will have a really hard time guessing just what that top Juvenile title is) but we can tell you the subjects and make you guess.