Morgan Cowie

November 19, 2008

Random House Changes E-Book Royalty Structure

Morgan Cowie

November 19, 2008

In a letter to literary agents, Random House has recently announced that they are changing the royalty structure for authors with e-books.

Morgan Cowie

November 6, 2008

Publishing

Digitization Is Like Global Warming (eep!): Mark Logic

Morgan Cowie

November 6, 2008

Publishing

Kind of a depressing way to look at trends in the future of publishing…but still some interesting if not completely new stuff. Ned May, Director and Analyst at Outsell, discusses trends in B2B publishing (which is also relevant to B2C publishing, I think).

Morgan Cowie

October 8, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

New E-Textbook Model Helps Students and Publishers

Morgan Cowie

October 8, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

The University of Texas is trying out a new e-textbook initiative that they say could “fundamentally change the industry”.

Tim Middleton

September 26, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

The Editor Is an Island of Knowledge

Tim Middleton

September 26, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

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.

Morgan Cowie

September 25, 2008

Publishing

Zoho Saves Trees, Time, and Postage

Morgan Cowie

September 25, 2008

Publishing

Zoho.com, an up and comer in the world of online document creation, offers a wide selection of document types that you can create online, manage and share with your colleagues and friends.

Morgan Cowie

September 4, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

Small Publishers Get Big Technology

Morgan Cowie

September 4, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

Perseus Books Group has brokered a deal with leading tech companies to provide digital book technology to small publishers at reasonable rates.

Tim Middleton

August 20, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

Lonely Planet on Nokia

Tim Middleton

August 20, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

If you are one of those other people who use one of those other phones, namely Nokia, then you may have had occasion to use Nokia Maps.

Morgan Cowie

August 6, 2008

Bookselling, Marketing, Publishing

Social Networks and New Business Models

Morgan Cowie

August 6, 2008

Bookselling, Marketing, Publishing

With Amazon acquiring Abebooks (and a 40% share in LibraryThing with it), it seems as good a time as any to take a look at some of the business models online social networks are creating. (Attempting to create? Maybe.)

Michael Tamblyn

August 2, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks, Standards & Metadata

Mortal Combat in ISBN-Land

Michael Tamblyn

August 2, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks, Standards & Metadata

This falls into the department of “little decisions with major ramifications”. While most of the industry maneuvers through vacations and sales conferences, there is a fight brewing between publishers, standards agencies, and other interested parties about ISBNs and eBooks.

Morgan Cowie

July 24, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

TiVo: The New Local Bookseller

Morgan Cowie

July 24, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

It’s bookselling for the instant gratification generation. Watching an author interview or segment on a book that catches your attention? TiVo now has an online menu onscreen that allows you to buy books directly from Amazon—using your TV.