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AAP Passive-Aggressively Endorses EPUB
May 15 2008
Note: Most of this post was drafted on the train ride back from New York on Wednesday night, and I held off posting it because I thought it sounded too snarky. Well, a day later I still think it... read moreA Manifesto on Publishing in the 21st Century
May 14 2008
Sara Lloyd, head of digital publishing at Pan Macmillan, is in the middle of an impressive book publishers' manifesto over on the digitalist: The locked-in perception of the book as a unit or a product has also led to digital... read moreThe Importance of Viewing the World as Readers Do
May 14 2008
Publishers who turn data into something readers find truly useful stand a much better chance of success. read moreSome Quotables from OnCopyright 2008
May 08 2008
I spent last Thursday at Copyright Clearance Center's OnCopyright 2008, and came away with some great lines from the panelists well worth sharing here. read moreThink Digital and Get Accessible for Free
May 07 2008
Today brought the release of a "Save to Daisy" add-in for Microsoft Word, and while a new Word add-in wouldn't normally be news for publishers, there's a bit more to this story. Among the benefits of distributing content digitally... read moreTrent Reznor Continues to "Get" the Value of Free Content
May 07 2008
Trent Reznor continues to demonstrate that he understands the value of free content as a promotional tool. read moreWhy TOC is an Idea Much Bigger than O'Reilly
May 01 2008
One of the reasons we at O'Reilly believe so strongly in what we're doing with TOC is that we see it as something much bigger than ourselves. While we of course value the opportunity to create a context for... read moreTOC Tutorial DVDs Now Available
April 30 2008
DVDs from four of the eight TOC 2008 tutorials are now in-stock. If you attended the conference, check your email for information on how to save 50%. If you missed TOC 2008, you can still save 30% on the... read moreSave the Date! TOC Conference 2009 -- February 9-11 2009 in NYC
April 28 2008
The 2009 Tools of Change for Publishing Conference is now officially scheduled for February 9-11 2009, again at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. We haven't yet opened up the Call for Proposals or registration, but if you sign... read moreResponsibly Assuaging Author Concerns about File Sharing and "Piracy"
April 28 2008
Eric Freeman, co-author of O'Reilly's Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and Head First Design Patterns, recently asked via email about a rise in activity for Head First books on a popular file-sharing site. His query sparked an... read moreMeasuring Success on Self-Published Titles
April 24 2008
Standard sales measures sell self-publishers short. read moreMeasuring Success on Self-Published Titles
April 23 2008
Standard sales measures sell self-publishers short. read moreTim O'Reilly: Amazon Has Publishers in its Sights
April 17 2008
Over on the the O'Reilly Radar blog, Tim O'Reilly offers a warning for publishers, and cautions Amazon against "irreparably" harming the publishing ecosystem: It is a free-market economy, and competition is the name of the game. But as Amazon's... read more[LBF] This Way to the Egress, er, Ebooks
April 17 2008
Along with my registration materials for the London Book Fair (sent to me by mail -- a sign of how traditional most of the publishing industry remains) was a ticket to something called the "London eBook Show at the... read more[LBF] What Ex-Smokers and Ebook Early Adopters Have in Common
April 17 2008
During a seminar today at the London Book Fair titled "How to Digitize your Content" (not to be confused with our own "Digitizing Your Backlist"), Penguin Group Digital Director Genevieve Shore shared some interesting insights about Penguin's growing ebook... read more
