Ah, Tuesday. Tuesday after BEC. Though lack of energy might swing some of the content in this post from my modest aim of ‘comprehensible and mildly amusing’ to ‘pre-verbal’, I still have tasked myself with recounting the thrills and chills of this year’s BEC.
BEC: Our Morning in Another Country
Find New Partners for Digital Initiatives
You’ve decided to adopt new digital strategy like Print-on-Demand or eBooks. Now what? How do you find the partners, vendors or service providers that will help you make it happen? O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing has set up a nifty online directory of suppliers and events that will allow you to find out who to speak with to make your move.
Index Tweet Tweet
One of the things about twitter is that it happens fast and often! Depending on how many people you’re following, how many accounts you have, you can miss tons of posts. I’ve also been trying to figure out how useful it is to have twitter tweeting away at you if you have to sit on top of it, watching for the good stuff. Enter hashtags.
Jeff Bezos: Books Going the Way of the Horse (But Not the Dodo)
Amazon’s head honcho Jeff Bezos told the Wall Street Journal that a good model for understanding the future of the printed book is that of the horse-transportation method. In this day and age, horses are still perfectly good modes of transport—it’s just that the use cases of planes, trains and automobiles are, in most cases, more suitable to the desired results of the consumer.
New Social Network for Books
Having just received a press release of the newest book-focused social network, Juicespot , I am now thinking about my virtual shelves rapidly collecting virtual dust on both Goodreads and Library Thing. I sign up for book-focused social networks (can I just call them BFSNs? thanks) thinking I’ll get really into them and then…I don’t.
Ipsos Reid Study Shows Adults Leading the Way
Big Blue Helps Green Supply Chain
Announcements from BEA
LibreDigital and Ingram Digital both announce they will transition Microsoft Live Content for free (to their respective repositories)
eMusic has signed 9 more publishers for DRM-free audio book program
Zogby International released results from a nationwide online survey of the reading and book-buying habits of over 8,000 American adults
Thanks to Publisher’s Lunch for the updates.
For Those About to Tweet, We Salute You!
Okay, if you aren’t on twitter then you’re not following Tim O’Reilly as he microblogs the D: All Things Digital conference. If you were then you would have seen a short blast about stats re; The Kindle. And then you could have gone to his blog for more details. Or you can read his post here…
