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July 01 2009
I've had the opportunity to speak with quite a few of my industry colleagues in Europe during the past year, and it became increasingly obvious there was an opportunity to... read more"Being wrong is a feature, not a bug"
July 01 2009
A thoughtful piece from Michael Nielsen on the disruption of the scientific publishing industry includes a lot that's very relevant to other publishers and media companies. For example: In... read moreNew on O'Reilly Labs: Open Feedback Publshing System
May 21 2009
O'Reilly engineer Keith Fahlgren has formally launched our new Open Feedback Publishing System over on O'Reilly Labs: Over the last few years, traditional publishing has been moving closer to the... read moreUndocumented Kindle "Clippings" Limit?
May 20 2009
O'Reilly author Shelley Powers is a heavy user of Kindle's "clipping" feature, and has run into an apparently undocumented clipping limit imposed by Amazon: I tried to find information about... read moreScribd Store a Welcome Addition to Ebook Market (and 650 O'Reilly Titles Included)
May 18 2009
The document-sharing site Scribd has launched a new "Scribd Store" selling view and download access to documents and books. As part of the launch, there are now more than 650 O'Reilly ebooks now available for preview and sale in the Scribd store, and all include DRM-free PDF downloads with purchase.… read moreScribd Store Sets New Standard for Ebook Ecommerce (and 650 O'Reilly Ebooks Included)
May 18 2009
There are more than 650 (DRM-free of course) O'Reilly ebooks now on sale in the new Scribd store, which officially launches Monday morning. Full details over on O'Reilly Radar: For... read moreAmazon's Physical vs. Digital Dissonance
May 18 2009
In March of 2008, I wrote about the frustrating experience of trying to get this blog added to Kindle. Fourteen months later, apparently that "rather large ingestion queue" is still... read moreEbook Piracy is Up Because Ebook Demand is Up
May 12 2009
My email, twitter, and "real-world" information stream is abuzz today with references to a New York Times story about the increase in piracy of ebooks: “It’s exponentially up,” said David... read moreAuthoring Tools from Alpha Geeks
May 11 2009
Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) has posted a nice article covering some of the tools he's built or borrowed to make his writing life more manageable. I'm especially intrigued by the Flashbake... read moreOver 160 O'Reilly Books Now in Kindle Store (without DRM), More on the Way
April 17 2009
I'm happy to announce that more than 160 O'Reilly books are now available on Kindle, and are being sold without any DRM (Digital Rights Management). Though we do offer more... read moreGoogle's Distribution Advantage Has Its Limits
April 13 2009
Scott Karp has an insightful (and provocatively titled) piece over on the Publishing 2.0 blog about just how deeply Google has inserted itself in Web distribution of content. While much... read moreOpen Publishing Distribution System -- an Open-Standards Catalog Format
April 08 2009
It's no secret we're big fans of the iPhone/iPod reading app Stanza. While the Kindle App has overtaken Stanza for the top-spot among free book apps in iTunes, Stanza offers... read more"Bite-Size Edits" from BookOven
April 02 2009
Hugh McGuire's startup BookOven has opened up an alpha version of a project they're calling the Gutenberg Rally, an attempt to harness collective intelligence Mechanical-Turk style to proofread Project Gutenberg... read moreReaders Boycotting Kindle Titles Priced Above $9.99
April 02 2009
Pricing is a red-hot topic among publishers when it comes to ebooks. As I said in a Q&A for Forbes.com last week, cost-driven pricing (especially when the costs in question are calculated based on printed output) is a poor approach for ebook publishers. Readers simply don't care how much it… read moreSoftware Development as Collaborative Writing
March 31 2009
Following a lively backchannel email discussion, I'd planned to blog about what writers, editors, and publishers can learn from software developers (specifically their tools and techniques) but Tim beat me... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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