It’s overcast in Toronto, and a perfect day to test out BookOven’s cloud-based publishing project! BookOven, by its own admission, is “an online toolset that helps individuals and groups to make, improve, publish, and sell print books and ebooks.
Book Creation: Beyond the Printed Page
Genre-busting and cross-media narratives—we’ve seen it in other sectors of the entertainment industry with varying degrees of success. Offhand, I remember those webisodes of Battlestar Galactica I devoured during those long interseason hiatuses. Consumers are comfortable with cross-genre content, and it’s good to see book publishers taking risks to adapt to this new environment. Which made us wonder: what other forms of book creation are out there?
Content Throws Off Covers, Stands Awkwardly
As publishers increasingly see the information between the pages as content, business models feel the push to change to accommodate the new possibilities of delivery. The pricing debate, though the talk was about format, inherently had content at its core. So what happens when content unleashed from the printed page?
The Reader Perspective at Tools of Change + TF Updates
Next week is the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference in NYC. Sadly, this BookNetter won’t be attending, though two other BNC staffers will. Jealousy abounds. I’m particularly interested in the panels exploring the reader’s perspective…
EPUB and the iPad
Bookselling Innovation That Will Save the Industry
EBooks, eReaders and eBooksellers are all the rage in publishing reporting. Amazon announces that Christmas Day 2009 was the first Christmas where eBooks outsold their print counterparts. Kobo announces a new global strategy.
Upcoming Conferences for All Who Love Books & Tech, Tech & Books
Looking Ahead to 2010
HarperCollins Saves Trees with Online Catalogues
Images from BNC Tech Forum '09
We’ll be adding more photos to the BNC Flickr stream in the weeks to come…check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/36610927@N08/?donelayout=1 to get a taste of the day’s events.
