The new Random House UK premium eBooks offer extras not included in their print iterations. These “ePub premium” files are created with extra content from the author…
Over 1,000,000,000 Served?
The Apple App clock approaches a billion downloads (is that real time downloading or just Flash for effect?) and two major lessons for book industry folks are hidden among the Spores and the Light Saber.
Boycotts, DRM, and Shifting Sands of Pricing Power
The recent tagging spurt/protest of Amazon Kindle owners rebelling against eBook prices above $9.99 sheds a lot of light on the way power dynamics are shifting.
The electronic supply chain is still evolving but at least three factors are influencing existing power dynamics when it comes to pricing (and maybe more).
In the Beginning, There Was EPUB Boot Camp
It’s finally happening. The eBook is coming to fruition as a thing that some people want. It didn’t work with Rocket EBook, but with new technologies—eInk, wireless readers, smart phones, etc—people are reading books off of a screen.
BookNet Canada and the Association of Canadian Publisher’s EPUB Boot Camp was a great introduction to the format and general overview of the available tech.
University Press Says No More Paper (But Still Books)
The University of Michigan Press has announced they are now transitioning to an all eBook list within 24 months.”Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs that the press publishes each year…”
No Country for Old Media: Why Technology Is Important to Small Publishers—BNC Tech Forum '09 Intern Report
Before I joined the BookNet gang as their wily intern, I was (and still am) a coordinating editor at a small literary press. Admittedly, I had seen the electronic book and the online world to some extent, a dystopian literary landscape composed entirely of celebrity scandal pics and text-message shout outs to various boo’s across the cyber-sphere.
I learned a lot. The BNC Technology Forum 2008 was a great conference and really opened my eyes to the possibilities of the future, and specifically how small presses have an incredible advantage right now. Publishers need to embrace the new mediums and prosper. In that vein, I’ve created a list of five things every small publisher should consider when evaluating their place in this brave new world.
The Kindle Mashup of Formatting
Manage Your E-Books with Calibre
I found a new tool this morning that is very intriguing. I have been playing around with it a bit and have found that it isn’t the most intuitive when it comes to usability but you can figure it out easily enough. Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager with a cover flow browsing functionality and network sharing so you can sync your e-book catalogue with the Stanza reader.
Amazon on the iPhone/Touch: Kindling?
Eco-Bounty
With the advent of the Kindle 2 one begins to wonder if we are really ready to go electronic with reading. The reason I wonder is because I’ve been looking at Chris Jordan’s work lately where he tries to document the size of the e-waste that is in the world now. One picture stands out for me—430,000 cells phones a day retired in the US alone.