Morgan Cowie

May 29, 2008

Announcements from BEA

Morgan Cowie

May 29, 2008

LibreDigital and Ingram Digital both announce they will transition Microsoft Live Content for free (to their respective repositories)

eMusic has signed 9 more publishers for DRM-free audio book program

Zogby International released results from a nationwide online survey of the reading and book-buying habits of over 8,000 American adults

Thanks to Publisher’s Lunch for the updates.

Tim Middleton

May 28, 2008

Conferences & Events, Ebooks

For Those About to Tweet, We Salute You!

Tim Middleton

May 28, 2008

Conferences & Events, Ebooks

Okay, if you aren’t on twitter then you’re not following Tim O’Reilly as he microblogs the D: All Things Digital conference. If you were then you would have seen a short blast about stats re; The Kindle. And then you could have gone to his blog for more details. Or you can read his post here…

Tim Middleton

May 15, 2008

Conferences & Events

Innovate! And Don't Forget the Reader...

Tim Middleton

May 15, 2008

Conferences & Events

Last week the BISG hosted their annual Making Information Pay conference in New York. The theme of this year’s conference was From Experimentation to Innovation in the Digital Age with the keynote delivered by home grown Canadian, Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting.

Morgan Cowie

April 22, 2008

Conferences & Events

Publishing's Innovators Take the Stage at Making Information Pay

Morgan Cowie

April 22, 2008

Conferences & Events

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will host some of the most intriguing innovators in North America’s publishing scene at this year’s Making Information Pay on May 9,2008.

Tim Middleton

April 15, 2008

Conferences & Events, Ebooks, Standards & Metadata

Digital News

Tim Middleton

April 15, 2008

Conferences & Events, Ebooks, Standards & Metadata

While the London Book Fair was home to big news regarding digitization with Random House announcing their further rollout of digital books and Penguin announcing support for the open .epub standard, the IDPF BSIG (Business Special Interest Group) call this week centered around some practical guidelines for going forward with digitization.

Tim Middleton

March 19, 2008

Conferences & Events, Ebooks

The Digital Race Speeds Ahead

Tim Middleton

March 19, 2008

Conferences & Events, Ebooks

Last week I was down to New York for a day so I could participate in the BISG digital standards meeting, where work progressed ever so slowly on creating a version 1.0 document regarding standards for search and discoverability.

Morgan Cowie

March 13, 2008

Conferences & Events, Tech Forum

BNC Tech Forum 2008: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Morgan Cowie

March 13, 2008

Conferences & Events, Tech Forum

Now that the dust has settled on this year’s conference, it’s time for one woman to give you the dirt behind the scenes at the big event…

Morgan Cowie

March 11, 2008

BookNet News, Conferences & Events

PubFight Breaks the Big Time

Morgan Cowie

March 11, 2008

BookNet News, Conferences & Events

We all knew it would come…the game us BookNetters have been enthralled with since last June is now breaking out of 215 Spadina and into the big old industry…

Michael Tamblyn

March 7, 2008

BookNet News, Conferences & Events

PubFight: If the Book Business Is a Gamble, Learn How to Count Cards

Michael Tamblyn

March 7, 2008

BookNet News, Conferences & Events

Yesterday at the BookNet Canada Technology Forum, we provided the comic relief for the day by unveiling PubFight, the fantasy publishing/simulation/training arena for the Canadian book industry. For those that couldn’t be there for the raucous demonstration, here is the text that Tech Forum attendees received yesterday…

Morgan Cowie

September 17, 2007

Conferences & Events

Open Culture, Closed Wallet

Morgan Cowie

September 17, 2007

Conferences & Events

BNC’s Speaker Series event last Thursday looked at some of the ways savvy content producers are using give-aways as part of emerging business models, specifically by expanding brands and developing loyal customers out of skeptical consumers.