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A Question and Some Random Observations

Submitted by DonLinn on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 13:09

I’ve spent the last two and one-half days with about 1500 of my closest friends at Digital Book World 2012, this week’s entry into the publishing conference sweepstakes. The conference has grown tremendously in terms of attendance, number of sponsors and breadth of programming over its three-year life and along with some very good speakers and panels, provides an excellent networking opportunity. (Disclosure: I’m a conference junkie and this is one of eight or ten I’ll attend this year. Read more »

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Optimism on the wane at Digital Book World as Amazon animus grows

Submitted by Gayle Feldman on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 11:23

The book business is “like the wild west. Everyone wants to be everything", Hyperion publisher Ellen Archer said to 1500-plus attending Digital Book World in New York on Tuesday.  Where is separation between author, publisher, agent, retailer these days? Read more »

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Don't be afraid, don't be very afraid

Submitted by Philip Jones on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 16:32

As Digital Book World -- the first of the two big post-Christmas US e-book conferences -- opens, last week's education announcement by Apple shows how easy it is now for any of the big digital companies to hijack the publishing conversation. Read more »

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What Apple’s textbook vision means for publishers

Submitted by Richard Stephenson on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 10:35

 

In New York last week, Apple announced their big play for the textbook market. It consists of three elements: a new iBooks Author tool, an update to the iBooks app, and an update to the iTunes University app.

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What the eDickens?

Submitted by Martyn Daniels on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 10:15

Last week we wrote about the logic of the appeal of the short story in this new digital world and yesterday we attended The Museum of London’s special 200th celebration of Charles Dickens.

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3 important questions about digital that nobody is asking.

Submitted by NickAtkinson7 on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 07:37

I was deliberating what I’d write about in my first post for Futurebook and begun by considering the hot subjects everyone is talking about – what % of sales could eBooks account in the future? Are Kobo or Apple genuinely going to give Amazon a run for their money in ebook sales? Read more »

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The Renaissance of The Short Story?

Submitted by Martyn Daniels on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 14:05

We now live in a sound bite word where the channel hopper often rules and where our time is often torn between many competing distractions. Read more »

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FutureBook blog - some analytics

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 09:48

I hope that you will indulge me this post. I spent some of my evening going through the analytics for this blog and thought I might share some of the results.

In the last month traffic to the site has come from:

UK - 32.4%

US & Canada - 25.8%

Rest of Europe - 19%

Brazil - 6.3%

Australia - 3%

Rest of World - 13.5% Read more »

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Why is Faber running a self-publishing course?

Submitted by Ian Ellard on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:04

In February, Faber Academy are running a new course called 'Bring Your Book To Market'. It will cover the process of preparing your manuscript and uploading it to ebook retailers, and then building yourself a digital platform from which to sell copies. Read more »

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