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 On Christmas day people, armed with their newly-presented e-readers, downloaded over a million plus e-books!
Talk about regenerating and transforming bestseller lists in an instant...
E-readers have rode in and, in one swell swoop, saved publishing, the book industry and inspired reading. What a shot in the arm!
The only question is: who the hell truly understands all the opportunities in this newly-transformed, sleeker, more efficient, offspring publishing industry??*##% Did I say newly-transfo... Continue reading ...
 Books, albeit 'live' or interactive, will remain a part of the human experience forever....And they will primarily consist of text, whatever the media format. Publishers, as an industry, will not. That industry has been fragmented into a democratic individualistic endeavor, if you will...A vastly more level and responsive playing field
Everyone who writes and presents are now 'publishers'...Talk about an all-inclusive vertical business model...In fact, talk about an all-inclusive horizontal b... Continue reading ...
 A venerable old weekly print news mag (it was reduced to monthly in November 2008) is riding off into it's last sunset (the last issue is this month)...
BUT, the U.S. News & World Report will re-appear in digital clothes with an expanded online edition that will appear 8 times per year and definitly include it's famous "list" issues...you remember them: the best colleges, hospitals, etc.
Here is a great eulogy delivered by big fan Greg Brown of FOLIO magazine:
Right about now, you should be gett... Continue reading ...
 In the digital publishing age a balance needs to be created between the customers' desire for immediate accessability at any time to enriched text (enhanced with audio, video, three-dimensional objects, full text searching, note taking, etc) and "...publishers’ needs for financial self-sustainability."
We are at the age where researchers can access works in the form of e-books that are accessable at any time and any place and never go out of print!
This is heavy neatness to the extreme. Publ... Continue reading ...
 Peaceful resolution may be at hand! I've posted on this issue previously several times on both this blog and Writers Welcome Blog, but I will give one reference here from Writers Welcome Blog for a little background on Google's effort to corner and monopolize digital rights to books (especially out-of-print books).
Anyway, the French publisher Hachette Livre has reached an agreement with Google that may serve as a model for other countries...It certainly is a pact that benefits all concerned (... Continue reading ...
 Starting 1 December 2010 Kindle will bump publishers' revenue share to 70% (minus delivery costs).
Delivery costs? this is something I'm still confused about. What the hell is the delivery costs for digital downloads? Maybe one of my smarter readers can enlighten me...I hope so. Even the example given in the article below doesn't add up in my petrified mind.
Anyhow, this royalty about to be introduced by Kindle proves they are eons ahead of the other eBook retailers and bookstores (and their a... Continue reading ...
 The fastest growing sector of publishing is in the mobiles. And Apple is in position to control...But they may be screwing up according to a new report by ABCi (Audit Bureau of Circulations 'interactive').
The bottom line is Apple has poor analytics and doesn't share appropriate customer data with publishers.
Steven Sande of TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) reports this:
ABCi, the interactive media arm of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, has issued a new report showing that American and Cana... Continue reading ...
 Omekais geared towards the online exhibition of library, museum and archive collections. Their new scholarly site, http://www.omeka.net/ , will be a boon to researchers and advanced degree candidates...as well as other academic aficionados.
This new Omeka site will also encourage collaboration and communication; a good thing in research.
Wonder if something like this would encourage more adult collaboration in D.C.for the good of the country?#@*!
Just thought I'd ask.
Susan J. Campbell of TMCne... Continue reading ...
 A German author has introduced a concept for new e-books that will further differentiate them from traditional books...And, he hopes, will make them a better reading experience for readers.
The German author who is on a mission to make e-books more interactive, and with the possibility of no beginning and no end, is Juergen Neffe and his program is called Libroid.
More details by Barry Neild for CNN :
Never-ending book heralds new chapter in e-publishing
It's an age-old problem for avid book read... Continue reading ...
 Conde Nast's magazine empire will be using the Adobe publishing tool to publish and sell mags on Apple's iOS...AND with the fantastic "flash" capability intact through the use of ingenious Adobe apps.
For those who aren't aware, Apple resisted the use of the fantastic "flash" technology on their new iOS/iPad outlet by not including an Apple in-house designed app to allow the great clarity and sharp graphics technology that is "flash" and sets Adobe apart from the rest in this area...including ...
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 Adobe, still the premier online graphic designer resource, is providing a publishing platform that will allow magazines and newspapers to publish to all the new mobile devices.
The new Adobe platform was introduced today at the start of it's Adobe Max Conference.
I learned of this cool news reading an article by Ron Miller for Fierce Content Management:
Adobe(NASDAQ: ADBE) made several key announcements today at the launch of its Adobe Max conference including a new hosted digital publishing... Continue reading ...
 With the new digital format demand for books plus the print on demand (POD) requirements of many, logistical requirements for delivering mixed content to ever-increasing readers became a nightmare for publishers.
One giant global publisher, Macmillan, solved this nightmare problem by joining with one of the worlds largest book distributors, Ingram Content Group, to forge a new business model.
This report from PRWeb:
Ingram Content Group Inc. and Macmillan today announced a new distribution ser... Continue reading ...
 The title says it all!
A consumer survey conducted by consultants with Oliver Wyman for Next Issue Media determined that consumers were willing to pay for good mag and newspaper digital content...Details follow from an article by Eric Sass in MediaPostNews:
Digital issues of magazines could generate $3 billion in subscription revenues for magazine and newspaper publishers by 2014, according to a consumer survey conducted by consultants with Oliver Wyman on behalf of Next Issue Media, a consort...
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Posted by John R. on Saturday, August 14, 2010,
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 Technology has improved publishing means...AND that also includes printed word publishing as well as digital publishing.
This neat piece of information comes from FOLIO magazine and it's staff:
Publishing Technology 2010
Today, the publishing industry is being driven by technology more than ever before. As business models evolve, the right technology can make or break new products, from the back-end of a Web site to new customer-facing channels such as mobile and tablet apps.
But it’s not... Continue reading ...
 Global Leaders Institute will be hosting the Digital Publishing Asia Pacific 2010 event in November in China. Everybody who's anybody will be there to hash out the inevitable problems in a huge emerging market...
This press release and report is from PRNewswire :
Hosted by Global Leaders Institute, world digital publishing industry leaders will convene at Digital Publishing Asia Pacific 2010 (DPAP2010) on November 16th and 17th in Beijing China. The two-day executive summit will examine the hot... Continue reading ...
 How would you like a resource to pull videos from that are related to your site content AND that will draw bigger advertisers with more money for you?...
At least that is what I think the following press release is saying...I am NOT an expert. But, the following press release seems to be saying something important for helping smaller publishers monetize while increasing sales for advertisers!
Initiative will allow publishers to provide contextually relevant video to site specific advertise... Continue reading ...
 Maybe...The iPad offers a more personal experience than computers and more graphics and peripherals than eReaders...but, will readers pay for the mag content...much less invest in the expense of the iPad to begin with?
I feel they will...IF the content is relevent, interactive, well written and not available elsewhere. Afterall, content that people want is king!
Benny Evangelista, who writes technology for the SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle), has this view:
For the magazine industry, App...
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 The international digital publishing industry was an invited guest at BookExpo America (BEA) taking place now in New York AND given a kings welcome!
This is a good move and shows that booksellers realize they must gear up to sell both digital and print versions of books to grow and survive in the new publishing paradigm.
Here is an interesting take on this years BEA by Bob Hoover of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The technological elephant is finally welcome in the living room of the America... Continue reading ...
A new middle ground, half way between traditional publishing (that now outsources everything and puts the marketing burden on the writers) and pure self-publishing, is opening up. Publishing companies are now offering so-called "midlist authors" (and others too) more publishing support in their semi-self-publishing efforts. A case in point is Amazon's new publishing arm, AmazonEncore, agreeing to digitally publish J. A. Konrath's new Jack Daniels female cop series book, Shaken, and bring the ... Continue reading ...
The growing revenue WORLDWIDE from all the downloadable stuff (eBooks, music, etc) is growing almost exponentially and you can just envision the paper money literally raining down in buckets!
Well, how do the publishing, distribution and retail companies get a grip on all these currencies and their accounting and reporting? One way is through companies like RoyalShare...
This press release from PR Newswire:
Leading Book Publisher Adopts RoyaltyShare Service to Handle Growing Demands of Digit... Continue reading ...
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Will the digital content explosion destroy writers' livlihoods OR make their businesses better? There are two schools of thought on this topic...Some in the business, mostly from the publishing standpoint, think that the increased availability of content will drive down content costs and thereby royalities for writers of that content.
I respectfully disagree with this forecast.
I feel that the growing digital publishing industry is creating a renewed interest in reading and that cou... Continue reading ...
Some nice, interesting tidbits about ebook sales and digital publishing within Simon & Schuster...
Be sure to follow the links in this post.
Mark Byrne of MediaBistro/Galleycat reports:
CBS Publishing released its first quarter report yesterday, showing an uptick in e-book sales and a sharp increase in digital publishing revenue for Simon & Schuster.
Digital publishing revenue jumped from $3.6 million to $12 million in the first quarter of this year, growing 233 percent. According to a paid... Continue reading ...
Is the Apple iPad a success? I guess so as evidenced by the sales numbers! Good gosh, they can't seem to keep up with the demand...I wish I had a piece of this action!
Oh well, this from the New York Times:
Responding to strong demand in the United States for its iPad, Applesaid Wednesday that it would delay the worldwide release of the tablet computer for a month.
“Faced with this surprisingly strong U.S. demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch ... Continue reading ...
Posted by John R. on Monday, April 12, 2010,
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I have always LOVED Adobe and their products...and now they are outdoing past achievements with agressive leadership in digital publishing! The new interactivity and time-saving work-flows in their publishing software are stupendous!
This press release from BusinessWire paints a pretty picture of Adobe's "InDesign CS5":
Adobe InDesign CS5 enables creative professionals to deliver digital documents that include interactivity, animation, video and audio -- connecting people to page content in in... Continue reading ...
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Writer, Old-Warrior-Adventurer, Blogger... I was born in Key West, Florida. A rather famous hangout for some past famous writers: Hemingway and Tennessee Williams to name two. I just hope that I possess a glimmer of their talent. I have a bachelors degree in architecture/construction and a master's degree in industrial engineering. I have been writing for fifty plus years. Most of my writing has been in the technical, instructional and business areas. I am working on my first book: "Havana Harvest---When Cuba Was Naughty" which details my coming of age experiences in 1958 Havana, Cuba, at the age of 15. Please visit my other blog "Writers Welcome Blog" at http://alturl.com/4z88.
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