Nicholas Blake is editorial manager at Pan Macmillan. His job now includes digital as well, which means he needs to think about Pan Macmillan’s eBook and online publishing programme. Below are his top ten “islands of knowledge” for editors thinking about ebooks.
The Revolution Will Be Delivered in Bite-Sized Text Messages...
A couple of digital book news items have caught my attention lately. The first one is the article I read about an 86 year old buddhist monk in Japan writing a mobile phone novel and the second is the announcement by Daily Lit that Oxford Press is to begin serializing some of their more popular books for the service.
These announcements to me seem to signal a broader more popular acceptance of new forms of delivery and creation of literature.
These announcements to me seem to signal a broader more popular acceptance of new forms of delivery and creation of literature.
Dreaming of Androids
Kindle Power: Providing Books No One Else Can Get
Kindle Killer? First You Need Books
The Plastic Logic eReader (loyal BNC blog readers will remember it as the one you can hit with a shoe) is getting noticed. Which is great. What would be even greater is if the attention the cool prototype is getting was also tied to a release date, some content arrangements with publishers and a price tag.
Nielsen Supports E-Book Standard
What Books Have That Newspapers Don't
Jack Schafer has put together a great article on Slate detailing one more reason that newspapers aren’t doing so well in the transition from print to digital.
Mortal Combat in ISBN-Land
Move Over iPhone, Here Comes Kindle 2.0!
EPUB (and More) from O'Reilly
O’Reilly has announced that effective immediately they will be making 30 of their titles available in a bundle that contains a PDF, EPUB and MobiPocket edition—and all will be DRM free.
