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A New Take on the "Pocket Reference" -- Public Beta of new O'Reilly Mobile HTML App
August 25 2010
While there's been continued strong interest in our ebook iPhone apps (especially outside the US), taking a book and packaging it up as an app doesn't take advantage of many of the capabilities a device like the iPhone (or Android... read moreEbook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard
June 07 2010
I spend a lot of time talking with companies that want to resell O'Reilly ebooks. Some are large companies you've certainly heard of, others are small startups that haven't yet launched. But what's remarkably consistent is that few of them offer many of the options and features we at O'Reilly… read moreEbook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard
June 07 2010
I spend a lot of time talking with companies that want to resell O'Reilly ebooks. Some are large companies you've certainly heard of, others are small startups that haven't yet... read moreThe power of promotional pricing
June 03 2010
We've been running an ebook "$9.99 deal of the day" promotion for some time now, and customer response has been quite positive. There's also some very interesting sales data coming... read moreYou may not be writing software, but someday you'll probably write like the people who do
May 21 2010
Hugh McGuire's post yesterday raised some great points about what a really effective web-friendly distributed and inherently social writing platform should look like. When it comes to the software tools... read moreYes the iPad is sexy, but global sales are the real ebook growth news
May 07 2010
A deep look at the ebook growth opportunities in global markets and how direct sales can offset print book cannibalization. read moreSession/Speaker Ideas for TOC Frankfurt 2010
May 05 2010
Last year's first-ever TOC Frankfurt turned out better than we'd even hoped, with a 400-strong sellout crowd representing a diverse range of international publishers. We've lined up a bigger venue... read moreScenes from a Very Quiet London Book Fair
April 20 2010
Some photos snapped yesterday during the first day of the London Book Fair. Crowds have picked up on Day 2, but still an eerily quiet show.... read moreWhy iPad Adaptation is an Uphill Battle for Incumbent Publishers
April 08 2010
I heard quite a bit of buzz the past few days about the Popular Science+ iPad app, a "reimagining" of the magazine for the iPad (for the low-low price... read moreNYT Web Piece on Mobile Outperforming Web Demonstrates Own Conclusion
March 12 2010
NYTimes.com has a piece from Wednesday about several popular mobile apps that are better than their "parent" websites (using Zillow and Yelp as examples). What struck me when I first... read moreTOC Preview: The Future of Digital Textbooks
February 19 2010
Technology is driving change in the way people teach, learn, and create. The impact of technology on teaching and learning in K-12, higher education, and professional learning has been profound,... read moreFebruary 18 2010
This week I'll be posting some preview highlights about next week's (nearly sold out) TOC Conference in New York. While there's plenty of familiar faces on the attendee list for... read moreTOC Preview: Ebooks Are Here (But Print Still is Too)
February 17 2010
This week I'll be posting some preview highlights about next week's (nearly sold out) TOC Conference in New York. Much of the conversation in publishing today revolves around ebooks, digital... read moreTOC Preview: Getting the Reader's Perspective
February 16 2010
This week I'll be posting some preview highlights about next week's (nearly sold out) TOC Conference in New York. One of the concerns we heard loud and clear from last... read moreLightning Demos and Ignite!: Micropresentations at TOC 2010
February 12 2010
At the first three TOC Conferences, we held evening "Lightning Demo" sessions for brief product pitches and short-form presentations. The constraints of a brief time slot often spur impressive creativity... read moreWhy Mobile Will Win: eReaders are Sustaining, Mobile is Disruptive
January 25 2010
In one of the comments to Friday's speculation post about The Tablet, Scott Lewis sums up one of the most common objections to the viability of smartphone-based reading: 3.5" screen...... read moreThe Unicorns are Here, They're Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet
January 23 2010
I really didn't want to do another post about The Tablet. But then I saw this piece from Fortune (via @jafurtado -- does he ever sleep?) and this sentence drove... read more2009 O'Reilly Ebook Revenue up 104%
January 22 2010
During the past 18 months we've seen a dramatic shift in customer preference from print to digital when looking at sales from oreilly.com, which is a substantial sales channel for... read moreTen Reasons Why You Should Sign up for TOC 2010 Right Now
January 20 2010
In no particular order, here's ten links/reasons you should sign up right now for TOC 2010: "A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly & Ray Kurzweil" Arianna Huffington is one of the... read moreWhy the Apple/Publisher News isn't Really News
January 19 2010
The interwebs are abuzz over reports that Apple has been in talks with the "big 6" publishers to make their content available on the mythical (and purportedly forthcoming) Apple... read moreJanuary 05 2010
This post from Publishing Perspectives about publishing in Africa came in over the break, and it's worth a look: Five years later, [Muhtar] Bakare is still a confident believer in the power of the internet to revolutionize the African publishing industry. “The internet is our own Gutenberg moment,” he told… read moreAndroid Rising: O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone
December 23 2009
O'Reilly sells apps in both the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. Most apps (for now) are just app presentations of our ebooks, built using ereader apps popular on each platform (Stanza on iPhone, Aldiko on Android). That means many of our apps are essentially the same on each… read morePDF vs. EPUB vs. Mobi Format Download Comparison for oreilly.com
December 18 2009
I'm honored to have been elected to the IDPF Board of Directors, and will use the occasion to share some interesting data about download formats from oreilly.com. For most... read moreDavid Pogue Revisits DRM Question about Ebooks
December 17 2009
In a blog post today, New York Times Columnist (and bestselling O'Reilly author) David Pogue responds to a reader question about DRM (he calls it "copy protection") in light... read moreFirst Look at nook: Not Encouraging
December 15 2009
We (finally) received our nooks (pre-ordered quite some time ago), and the early results are ... disappointing. Loading one (any) of our EPUB ebooks causes the nook to hang,... read moreRolling out Android .apk Files in Ebook Bundles
December 04 2009
A distinguishing feature of Google's Android Market compared to the App Store is that it's a non-exclusive agreement. That means Android app developers are free to sell their apps... read moreOutperforming Books at Getting a Job Done
November 16 2009
Clay Christensen talks about how people hire products to do jobs for them, and for a very long time books have been the best performers at doing certain types of... read moreMichael Tamblyn's TOC Frankfurt presentation (actually a dramatic recreation thereof)
November 07 2009
via blip.tv Shortcovers' Michael Tamblyn was kind enough to record his talk and slides from last month's TOC Frankfurt Conference. I got a lot of great hallway feedback about... read moreWilliam Patry delivering Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Duke
November 07 2009
via ustream.tv Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010, delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the... read moreQwitter: Accessible Twitter client (uses TTS) (via @doctorow)
November 05 2009
Just make sure not to follow anyone who's a member of the Author's Guild ... "The Qwitter client enables blind individuals to interface with the Twitter service globally, regardless of... read more"Web-based ePub validator adds Preflight and API" (via @liza)
November 04 2009
From @liza at Threepress:"EpubCheck’s lesser-known companion checks for additional issues like content documents that exceed 300K, which can’t be loaded on the Sony Reader."http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/04/epub-validator-updates/(ps -- thanks to @liza for making... read moreDespite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman)
November 03 2009
O'Reilly's Ben Lorica slices and dices current app trends for iPhone and Android (nice data points on price stabilization too): "While it might be true that the number of Book... read moreEarly Registration Now Open for TOC 2010 New York
November 03 2009
Early registration is now open for the 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing Conference returning to the Marriott Marquis Feb. 22-24 2010.The program for TOC 2010 reflects how quickly the... read moreFree news but paid comments? (via @adamgaumont)
November 03 2009
Not sure I agree with the conclusion, but the journey was articulate and entertaining on the changing economics of media. http://sicmind.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/premium-content/ Posted via email from TOC Posterous... read moreInteresting TV subscriptions via iTunes in the works? (via @jafurtado)
November 03 2009
Reports suggest Apple is shopping $30/month TV subscriptions via iTunes (I cut the cable nearly a year ago for AppleTV and haven't looked back -- totally worth it.) http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091102/apples-itunes-pitch-tv-for-30-a-month/ Posted... read moreNew info on upcoming Ibis Reader from @liza's threepress -- another books-in-cloud model
November 02 2009
Our part of this open ecosystem is Ibis Reader, an in-development digital reading system for a range of internet devices that provides access to books both online and offline.... read more"E pluribus tunum: Uniform prices for online music are no way to maximise profit"
November 02 2009
This research suggest maximum value in a digital media market like iTunes (for both producer and consumer) comes from a combination of subscription/membership fee and per-item purchase: "Charging an "entry... read moreIn-depth insight from Tim O'Reilly on lessons learned from Safari Books Online
November 02 2009
"As I outlined above, Safari adopted a "cloud library" model rather than downloadable ebooks as its fundamental design metaphor. I thought it might be worthwhile to understand how we arrived... read moreNovember 01 2009
One of my favorite keynotes from TOC 2009 was National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) founder Chris Baty. It's November, which means the annual event is now underway. Check out... read moreO'Reilly Ebooks Now in Aldiko Online Catalog for Android
October 30 2009
The iPhone gets a lot of the attention when it comes to smartphones, but signs point to Android playing a huge role in the growing smartphone market, with 20+... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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Webcast: Publishing without Boundaries: What's on the O'Reilly Radar for the Future of Publishing
September 30, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Readers are changing their habits, and are demonstrating they're as eager as ever to find--and buy--quality content and entertainment. But the transition to digital--and increasingly mobile--media delivery...
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