EPUB is going to be more relevant than ever now that Apple’s announced that it will be the standard for eBooks on the iPad.
There’s pros and cons.
The Agency Model: What Does It Mean for Publishers, Retailers, and Readers?
BNC SalesData Tip #6: Bibliographic Data Gone Bad
One of the most popular question topics from BNC SalesData users is bibliographic data: where is it sourced; how is it updated; and how can errors in the data be corrected? Since we love nothing more than to rhapsodize over bibliographic data and metadata in the supply chain, we’ll climb up on our soapbox and share all the details with you!
E-Reading on the iPad: Where Will Your Content Come From?
Now that that the iPad announcement excitement (and screams of “I lost sound, do you have sound?” from across the office) have died down, let’s take a look at the iPad as an e-reader.
iPad, iBooks, iAwesome?
As some of you may have heard, Apple had their big tablet announcement today. What? Apple tablet announcement? Crazy, I know. And, no, Steve Jobs didn’t ride out on a unicorn as we all (ok, maybe only the BookNetters) had hoped.
Here’s a breakdown of the details plus a more extensive look at the ebook element.
BNC SalesData Tip #5: Date Selection
E-Book Pricing Impact on Print Formats?
BISG Releases E-Book Survey: But Are They Asking the Right People?
The Book Industry Study Group in the US has just released the first of three parts of a Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading study and while the initial results are intriguing, my sense is that the qualification they used for survey respondents is skewing results to make it look like more people are buying or are interested in buying e-books than might actually be true.
Bookselling Innovation That Will Save the Industry
EBooks, eReaders and eBooksellers are all the rage in publishing reporting. Amazon announces that Christmas Day 2009 was the first Christmas where eBooks outsold their print counterparts. Kobo announces a new global strategy.
