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Morgan Cowie
November 24, 2008
Bookselling, Publishing, Ebooks

Random House to Digitize Thousands More Books

Morgan Cowie
November 24, 2008
Bookselling, Publishing, Ebooks
The Associated Press reports on Random House’s plan to expand their eBook offerings from 8,000 to 15,000 titles.

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Tim Middleton
November 20, 2008
Publishing, Ebooks

The E-Book Specialist This Way Comes

Tim Middleton
November 20, 2008
Publishing, Ebooks
As many have pointed out in twitter land the position of e-book specialist did not exist a mere two weeks ago and now there are openings at two of the biggest publishers in North America.

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Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Standards & Metadata

XML Is Not Enough

Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Standards & Metadata
For a clear explanation of why XML is being championed as the greatest thing for publishing since Gutenberg (version 1.0), Book Brunch has a great explanation of both the Start with XML project and a gently expansive view of Move Towards Semantic.

Tagged: xml, industry commentary

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Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Publishing, Ebooks

Random House Changes E-Book Royalty Structure

Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Publishing, Ebooks
In a letter to literary agents, Random House has recently announced that they are changing the royalty structure for authors with e-books.

Tagged: authors

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Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Conferences & Events

2009 Conferences: Mark Your Calendar

Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Conferences & Events
With 2008 drawing to a close, now’s the time to bring out your brand new 2009, Quantum of Solace calendar (oh, that’s just me? apologies: thought everyone had one) and mark the dates of the conferences you won’t want to miss.

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Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Ebooks

500,000 Readers Agree...

Morgan Cowie
November 19, 2008
Ebooks
In just four months, Stanza, the free eReader application for the iPhone and and iPod touch has been downloaded more than half a million time, Galley Cat reports.

Tagged: ereaders, tech and apps

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Morgan Cowie
November 14, 2008
Marketing, Research & Analysis

Go Viral, Get Paid

Morgan Cowie
November 14, 2008
Marketing, Research & Analysis
Attributor, a company that makes its money helping publishers of web content attach ad revenue to their offerings, put dollars to speculation in a just released study.

Tagged: social media

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Morgan Cowie
November 14, 2008
Standards & Metadata

Explaining Bibliographic Data

Morgan Cowie
November 14, 2008
Standards & Metadata

If you’re like me and ever had the experience of trying to explain what you do at a cocktail party, only to be met with confused/bored/pitying looks, you’ll like Ehren Cheung’s ‘what the heck does a publishing house need with a bibliographic coordinator’ post at Dundurn Press.

Now we just need one for supply chain innovation.

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Michael Tamblyn
November 6, 2008
Conferences & Events

Live-Blogging Web 2.0 Summit

Michael Tamblyn
November 6, 2008
Conferences & Events
If you’re interested in the latest/greatest in web development and how web 2.0 is being used to solve today’s problems, I’m live-blogging (more or less) the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco!

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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).

Tagged: industry commentary

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