“ISBNs which refer to a generic ‘master’ record which provides information not on a tradable product in a specified format, but rather on a package of content tradable in a number of different formats will not be eligible for inclusion on the Nielsen Book database.”

Morgan Cowie

August 8, 2008

BookNet News, Conferences & Events

BNC PubFighting: This Time, It's Personal

Morgan Cowie

August 8, 2008

BookNet News, Conferences & Events

BookNet Canada’s PubFight auction was held last night and with the added layer of historical reference for some of the players, equal parts fiery passion and measured restraint were in the mix.

Morgan Cowie

August 7, 2008

Ebooks

What Books Have That Newspapers Don't

Morgan Cowie

August 7, 2008

Ebooks

Jack Schafer has put together a great article on Slate detailing one more reason that newspapers aren’t doing so well in the transition from print to digital.

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.)

Morgan Cowie

August 6, 2008

Marketing

Facebook Connect: Good...or Scary?

Morgan Cowie

August 6, 2008

Marketing

As the promise of Web 2.0—collaborate, share and connect!—continues to be delivered within websites, Facebook Connect offers a somewhat natural expansion: if sharing with your friends inside the site is great, isn’t sharing your friends with other sites greater? Let me explain…

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.