Publishers are more optimistic that they won’t see “significant” drops in print revenue in 2012, according to a recent survey. That optimism may be misplaced.
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Digital Changing ‘Very Nature of the Book Itself’
“They were really expecting that ‘we just have to get a website up and maybe a couple Twitter accounts and we’re done’ and bless ‘em for being so naïve. But they’re now in the middle of it, and they realize, ‘wait a minute, the very nature of the book itself, the path that we follow to make people aware of that book … has completely changed now and we don’t know what levers to push.’”
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Jeremy Greenfield | Apple unveiled iBooks 2, the next iteration of its iBooks software. It also launched iBooks Author, a new e-book and enhanced e-book creation tool. Both are available in the Apple App Store for free today, the company said at an announcement this morning at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Opinion: What’s Really Going on at Barnes & Noble
Thad McIlroy | Yesterday morning, Barnes & Noble dropped a bombshell. In a press release reporting on the holiday season, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch revealed that the company’s overall sales and profits are not looking as strong as expected. And Sterling, the bookseller’s publishing unit, is for sale. What does it all really mean?
