Mashable recently published a list of “15 Twitter Users Shaping the Future of Publishing,” compiled by Maria Schneider. I was tickled to be on the list (as @hughmcguire … though most of my publishing tweets happen on @bookoven). It was a great list, and I agree heartily with all the selections (though there were a [...]
Intense day of discussion today about truly making a web of books, at the Internet Archive-sponsored event, Making Books Apparent … which is also the launch of the BookServer:
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model [...]
Writer Joe Konrath, who publishes with Hyperion has some Kindle books published by his publisher; he owns electronic rights to some back-list titles, and he self-published those to Kindle. He’s got a post with some interesting discussion about the value of publishing, royalties etc in the age of the ebook, but more interesting I think [...]
I was on a panel the other day about ebook pricing for O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing, Online Conference. Included in the panel were: Michael Tamblyn, VP Sales at Shortcovers; Trip Adler CEO Scribd; Neelan Choksi, CEO Lexcycle/Stanza. And the panel was moderated by Joe Wikert, Publisher at O’Reilly.
If you attended the event, you [...]
Paul Graham is one of the smartest thinkers about transformative technologies, market disruption, and the little companies that become successful in the middle of all that. Here he’s talking about publishing. I don’t agree with all of it, but reading Paul Graham is always worthwhile.
Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that [...]
Symtext, makers of “liquid textbooks,” launches with more than thirty publisher-partners, in a number of (Canadian only?) universities:
Liquid Textbooks defy pithy explanation but try this on for size: they let educators build the ideal course. Using just the content they need, from multiple sources, professors craft a living curriculum that reflects their unique style and [...]
The good fellows at Apt Studio, who seem to make much of the best booky stuff on the web, have released Enhanced Editions, “new books from great writers, with all the extras only the iPhone can provide.”
These are ebooks+ … with audio, video, and extras. As well as … well .. that other stuff, [...]
Well, this is very depressing. QuartetPress, the little publishing house that almost could, can’t:
For a variety of reasons large and small, Quartet Press has decided to discontinue operations. Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, a hard-working team, and the support of the community, things just don’t work out. This is one of those times. [...]
Book Oven pal Mark Bertils writes about Cloud Publishing on indexmb, focusing mostly on the reader-side, with services like Shortcovers and the more forwardlooking expectation of booky-APIs, Kindle’s or big cloud-based catalog initiatives.
The stuff that’s happening and going to happen on the finished product/reader side is exciting, but it pales, I think, in comparison [...]
My colleague, co-founder, and the chief architect and getter-doner at Book Oven, Stephanie Troeth has proposed a moderated panel at SXSW this year called:
Beyond Publishing: When Every Book is Connected to Everyone
We have an all-star line-up who have agreed to join us (if SXSW agrees to give us some space to talk):
Kassia Krozser co-founder [...]
