It is a truth universally acknowledged that a publisher in possession of a book must be in want of an appropriate digital publishing format.
Laura Brady, principal at Brady Type, a digital + print book production studio, thinks publishers should ditch their prejudices when looking for the right format.
As more and more publishing houses bring in talented digital employees, there’s a likely clash of cultures on the horizon. How can publishers with their rich history work alongside technologists and their history of “disrupting” everything? Designer and developer Derrick Schultz takes a look at the future of the people behind the books.
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has been hard at work since June 2013, bringing together the web and digital publishing communities to better understand each other’s needs. Find out what they’ve been up to, and how they’re building a brighter future for both communities in today’s guest post from ebookcraft presenters Tzviya Siegman and Ivan Herman!
Our first guest post of 2015 is from Artie Moffa, who spent six years setting textbooks at a Big Six publisher before switching to the indie scene. In 2014, he started The Yellow Buick Review, an open-source journal of lorem ipsum poetry, to explore best practices for formatting poems in the age of ebooks, which also happens to be the topic he’ll be discussing at ebookcraft this March. Now here he is explaining the unique needs of poetry versus prose.
Canadian book buyers across the country have a lot in common. We buy more print books than ebooks, we almost always pay full price, and we’re most likely to discover our books online, though we prefer to buy them in-store.
BookNet Canada is a non-profit organization that develops technology, standards, and education to serve the Canadian book industry. Founded in 2002 to address systemic challenges in the industry, BookNet Canada supports publishing companies, booksellers, wholesalers, distributors, sales agents, industry associations, literary agents, media, and libraries across the country.
