Nice historical analysis of how Gutenberg’s press brought evolution more than revolution. And much more great nuggetage to be found; the best historical overview I’ve seen in a while. I’d like to copy the whole thing here, but perhaps best for you to visit the site, The first printed books came with a question: What [...]
Seth Godin announced to great fanfare and hubub in the blog world that he will no longer publish his books through a traditional publisher.
Some see this as a big author shaking off the shackles of evil publishers; some publishers see this as Godin taking advantage of the investment traditional publishing made on his behalf, by [...]
Today, LibriVox celebrates five years of free public domain audiobooks.
The Montreal/Texas band Arcade Fire has just released a new album, Suburbs. Arcade Fire is about as big as indie bands get, and their plan is to stay indie – as far as I know.
You can buy the new album here:
http://www.arcadefire.com/ …
And some interesting notes about how you can buy:
* Premium digital ($7.99)
* CD + [...]
In the publishing industry there are any number of bugbears people point to to explain the collapse of the universe. Amazon gets it’s share of blame. But Amazon does what every business ought to do: it identifies needs/desires among customers and tries to answer those needs/desires with as little friction as possible.
Here’s what Jeff Bezos [...]
I posted a new thing over at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change blog, Sifting through all these books, here’s the first bit:
The latest numbers from Bowker are extraordinary: In 2002 there were 215,000 books published in the USA, and a further 32,693 print-on-demand title (short-runs, self-published etc).
In 2008, traditional publishers put out 275,000 books; but there [...]
I’m doing a little informal survey. I’d like to know what you think are the three most important books about the web, the digital, and its cultural implications. These could be books about technology, about sociology, about philosophy; but generally books that have helped, and will continue to help us navigate the future as it [...]
Ever since Book Oven shifted focus in November 2009 to Bite-Size Edits, I have been wanting to write about one of the major reasons for the shift: my realization that:
a) the world needs an open book-publishing platform
b) rather than building from scratch at Book Oven, we should have started with Wordpress, and built atop it.
I [...]
I just posted this to Twitter, but I think it might be important enough to commit in the hard stone of a blog. And the thought is the following:
The distinction between “the internet” & “books” is totally totally arbitrary, and will disappear in 5 years. Start adjusting now.
I just sent this out to the world: the tentative schedule for BookCampToronto, May 15 (and for more detailed session info: here).
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Web site: http://bookcampto.pbworks.com
BOOKCAMPTORONTO: TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
ROOM ONE:
9:30 Launching a Digital Business from Inside a Print Business
* Sulemaan Ahmed (Director of Digital Marketing, Harlequin)
* Jenny Bullough (Manager, Digital Content Harlequin)
10:30 [...]
