EDItEUR has just finalized the program for their annual book supply chain seminar in Frankfurt. Read on for the details…
Kids These Days, Not So Much with the Piracy (Yar!)
Streamlining Metadata Workflow Paper
The NISO and OCLC have published a white paper on Streamlining Metadata Workflow [pdf] that looks very interesting. I haven’t had the opportunity to wade through all 22 pages yet (fun for the weekend), but it looks interesting and worth the effort.
Online Subscriptions: Can Shortcovers Do What NY Times Can't?
Back when the web was just the web and 2.0 was just a glimmer in the mind’s eye of Timothy Berners-Lee, newspapers tried to get people to pay for content online. Various models were used but the one that sticks out in my head is the “free for a day, pay for the archives” model which some periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, still use.
In these dark times for newspapers, the notion of trying to resurrect or just erect this model is coming back. Can this apply to eBooks as well?
New Publishing Business Model #4: Smashwords
In May of this year, Smashwords, an eBook publishing platform originally set up to serve as a channel for self-published authors, expanded to offer services designed for publishers.
Case Study: D&M Does Free Right
In March 2009, the Greystone Books title Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent was the subject of an online publicity campaign led by the marketing staff at D&M. It’s a really inspiring example of how digital strategy can be used in three really important ways: first, getting the book out there in the hands (or RAMs) of readers, second, measuring how you did and thrid, creating a baseline to compare how any kinds of books do with the same treatment.
Happy Birthday to You
New Publishing Business Model #3: The Tor Store
Mike Shatzkin of Idealog has long been arguing that commerce in books needs to go ‘vertical’—that readers will gather at sites where their interests are served. Publisher branding doesn’t matter as much as putting the right combination of books together for a one-stop shopping experience.
Tor Books has effective done just that with their new online store.
Giving It Away: Book Summit 2009
The number of book professionals and students gathered at Harbourfront today for Giving It Away, the Humber College/BPC eighth annual Book Summit suggested that with or without BEC, there’s a strong desire to congregate and share ideas.
New Publishing Business Model #2: Scribd
O’Reilly’s doing it. Simon and Schuster’s doing it. The New York Times, Harvard and Ford are doing it.
Whatever it is you might be guessing (the twist? the dew? the nike corporate schill?), if you didn’t guess selling content through Scribd, then you don’t get the blue ribbon.
