It was only a matter of time after the recent purchase of Fictionwise: Barnes and Noble is opening what they are calling the world’s largest eBook store with more than 700,000 titles available both for free and for purchase.
New Publishing Business Model #2: Scribd
O’Reilly’s doing it. Simon and Schuster’s doing it. The New York Times, Harvard and Ford are doing it.
Whatever it is you might be guessing (the twist? the dew? the nike corporate schill?), if you didn’t guess selling content through Scribd, then you don’t get the blue ribbon.
It Takes a Village to Create an O'Reilly Book
O’Reilly Media is no stranger to reader collaboration. Their first open-source initiative, Rough Cuts allowed books-in-progress to be purchased, read and commented on while still in process of being written, thus enriching the work and creating a community of dedicated readers.
Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS), the new O’Reilly experiment, takes things a step further…
Why $9.99 Isn't the Mark of the Beast for Books
Is the lower price of eBooks really comparable to a “flood of cheap houses onto a real estate market,” as a quote in the New York Times article on eBook pricing suggests?
E-Reader-Selling Indie Bookstore Down Under
Amazon + Stanza = What for Canada?
Yesterday’s announcement that Amazon had acquired the eReading App That Could, Stanza, has set keyboards to clacking across the blogosphere (yes, I said blogosphere—but I promise I will never, ever call Twitter users “tweeps”, “tweeple” or anything along those lines. A girl’s gotta have a code).
What’s done is done. Now onto the big question—why and how does this news affect Canadian publishing?
An iPhone App for Indies
If you could put a smart, book-loving professional recommendation maker in your pocket next time you were looking for a great read, would you? How about a whole slew of them? Concerned about the pants-straining logistics or the funny looks you might receive due to your hitchhiking buddy? Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to the newest bookselling iPhone app: Indiebound.
E-Procrastination
Print is Still the Big Bet, but Not for Everyone
Trends to Watch
What do co-donating, perkonomics,brand butlering, tryvertising, eco-generosity, free love, RAK, and (F)rigid no more have in common besides being really sort of cool buzz words? Well these are the trends that the consumer trends firm Trendwatching.com is suggesting for a new generation called the G Generation.
