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 [...]
Book Oven Open for Cooking
We’ve been toiling away behind the scenes on the Book Oven for a few months. Now we’re ready to show you what we’ve been cooking. But there’s still work to do, and we want your help in building a new model for publishing.
Are you a writer? An editor? A proofreader? A [...]
From PaidContent.org:
Electronic book and magazine distributor LibreDigital has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. New investor Triangle Peak Partners led the round, with participation from previous backer Adams Capital Management. The company previously raised funding from investors like HarperCollins Publishers (which uses LibreDigital for distribution) and The New York Times. [more...]
OK this is a little bit strange. I was happy to find Nicholson Baker’s “Human Smoke” on Shortcovers. I was unhappy to find it costs $20.99 which is more than I’m willing to pay for an ebook (especially one that I more or less rent from Shortcovers).
Luckily, I noticed I could buy a hardcover version, [...]
I love Nicholson Baker. Some reasons:
He has written probably the best article ever on Wikipedia and online collaboration (in which he makes known his wikipedia username!).
When I asked him about LibriVox, he replied: “I found librivox last year and love it–a beautiful quilt of voices. ‘All librivox recordings are in the public domain.’ Been listening [...]
The ebook space heats up:
Barnes & Noble … announced today the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, the world’s largest eBookstore, on Barnes & Noble.com, enabling customers to buy eBooks and read them on a wide range of platforms, including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry® smartphones, as well as most Windows® and Mac® [...]
Bernard Lunn has a good article out at ReadWriteWed, examining the creative destruction currently sweeping the book business. He sees three waves of chaos descending into the traditional structures:
1. Google Book Scanning project
2. Ebooks (& Kindle)
3. Print-on-demand
Well worth a read. And part 2 of the article should come out today.
Great article about DMCA, rights, and how the rights-protectors end up shooting themselves in the foot. From Cory Doctorow. Of particular interest to Book Oven Blog readers will be the section on the Google Books Settlement, and the damage the Author’s Guild hath wrought:
Take the Authors Guild, a tiny organization representing a few thousand American [...]
One of my favourite podcasts/radio shows is CBC’s Spark, with the lovely Nora Young. Spark covers technology and society, and Nora is a wonderful interviewer of wonderful guests. So I was thrilled when Nora asked me to talk with her about the future of books in the digital age, after the success of BookCamp [...]
