Lately two ‘top-15-twitters-in-digital-publishing’ lists have been sent around twitter; one from Maria Schneider at Mashable and another from Hugh McGuire at BookOven. Below are the lists for your edification.
A Couple of Free, Interesting Webinars
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Join Our Novel Cult
Open Inspiration
There has been no shortage of fuel, inspiration and just plain change happening lately, some of it coming out of unconference land like Vancouver’s successful BookCamp (#bcvan09) and conference land like O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 show (#w2s). Change coming from search engine giants and giant bookstores. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go to any of the conferences but I was able to keep a twittering eye on the discussion coming out of them, however tweetingly.
Feeling Hyper Yet?
Mark Bertils (@mdash) tweeted a slogan I liked a few days ago that went something like ‘hyper-local is the new global’ (okay, I just checked and Mark actually said “multi-local” but I’m sticking with hyper because “are you feeling multi yet?” just doesn’t do it for me). Perhaps that comes as a response to the release of foursquare.com’s Toronto edition, I’m not sure—but ever since using twitter and thinking about geolocation, rfid and narrowcasting I have believed the direction search is likely to go and where value can really be added is by enabling that hyper-local awareness. Well what about adding hyper-real time to that equation?
Poll: Is QUE or Nook a Weirder Name for an E-Reader?
Data Exchange Tip #1: Why XML?
I’m going to do a series of blog posts on some of the very basic issues in file trading—what needs to be done before you submit an ONIX file (or an E-book if your e-book is in XML). In doing this I’m hoping that publishers will comment about software they like (and don’t), problems they have—and with any luck their successes.
So, for the first post: Why XML?
BookCamp Vancouver: Major Wrap
BookCamp Vancouver: Mini Wrap
A great video from Mark Bertils (http://indexmb.com/) with Monique Trottier’s thoughts on BookCamp Vancouver.
New Publishing Business Model #9: Beast Books
Are traditional book cycles, with inception to production taking a year or more, too long for today’s instant gratification seeking consumers? Unless you’re Sarah Palin, it’s received wisdom that books actually take some time to write. According to a new publishing model debuting at Beast Books, child of The Daily Beast and new imprint of Perseus Book Group, that kind of production cycle is old news.
