More on the Mike Elgan Future of eBooks article (part one is here if you’re curious)…
TOC2009: A Book Is A...
This year’s Tools of Change conference contained similar themes to last year, but the difference is the level of adoption, or perceived adoption, and ubqiuity of devices that can take the electronic content that publishers have and provide a transportable, light-weight, library of books to readers that they can carry in their pockets.
Here is a collection of ideas and information shared at the conference.
Here is a collection of ideas and information shared at the conference.
Print is Still the Big Bet, but Not for Everyone
Shortcovers Defined and Reviewed
The Wall Street Journal offers more insight into the goals of Indigo’s Shortcovers and what it offers readers.
Free Books on Your Phone: TextNovel
If you’re an author looking for readers, a publisher looking for talent, or a booklover looking for a new way to find books and read them, might be worth checking out the beta site textnovel.Do Ads Belong in Books?
After Daily Lit’s decision to start including ads in their serialized books, discussion about whether or not ads belong in books began again in earnest.
Mr. Postman, Bring Me a Book
In this age of email, texts and other non-tangible communiques, I doubt I’m alone in finding happiness when something is mailed to my abode that is not a) a bill b) a flyer for some terrifying new delivery place opening in my neighbourhood. My happiness increases 10-fold when that thing is reading material that I’ve been anxiously anticipating.
As of now, I subscribe only to magazines but when I saw Publishers Weekly story on the new subscription model being tried by Open Letter Books, my eyes did that cartoon poppy-outy thing. Subscription to an entire list? How awesome is that.
IMDB for Authors?
Is http://filedby.com the Internet Movie Database for authors? Now in private beta, it’s an online directory for published authors who want to maintain a web presence.
