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 [...]
If the object of writing is to deliver to readers a text that is engaging & enlightens, or entertains them in some way or other, then the idea of maintaining a fixed form of a book needs to be reexamined. Writers will probably always want to keep control of their work, but who is to [...]
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 [...]
This was going to be a short post. It’s turned into a manifesto of sorts! Ah, well …
I don’t like the term “self-publishing.”
Cloud-Publishing
In the emerging world of “cloud-publishing,” it’s meaningless, and does not reflect what’s coming, what we’re already seeing signs of. Cloud-publishing — what we’re doing at Book Oven — is providing a [...]
Roberto Rocha of the Montreal Gazette has a good article about Book Oven and the new publishing landscape, with a nice pic out the window of the office (with me blocking the view, unfortunately):
Before the Internet, when a writer could not find a publisher to print and sell a manuscript, he could take matters into [...]
Henry Baum of Self-Publishing Review interviewed me the other day about Book Oven. With Henry’s permission, I’m reposting the whole thing below.
Self-Publishing Review: So how’s the site work? What do people do once they create a project and how can writers contribute to other writers’ projects?
Hugh McGuire: Firstly, we’ve just launched and we have [...]
The Newspaperman and the Blogger
On July 9, Ian Shapira, Staff Writer for the Washington Post wrote a 1,500 word fluff piece about consultant Anne Loehr, who explains GenY to their cohabitants in the workplace. Then Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan blogged the story, reprinting some of Anne Loehr quotations from the Post piece.
Ian Shapira was initially happy: [...]
Amazon buys shoe retailer Zappos … for $850 million:
E-commerce heavyweight Amazon is set to acquire shoe e-retailer Zappos in a deal worth a cool $850 million. Under the agreement, the former company will obtain all outstanding shares, options and warrants of the latter in exchange for approximately 10 million shares of Amazon common stock along [...]
This has nothing to do with books, but it’s just about the coolest, most wonderful thing I’ve seen on the web in a long time.
Warning: if you have work to do, please do not click on this link.
inbflat.net
This week on Media Hacks we talk about the new iPhone, the next level of mobile, and … yep … Twitter, Iran, and the characteristics of the reach of microblogging.
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