Tag Archives: Ebooks

Top 3 problems with tablets in the classroom

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by Beth Bacon One million iPads. That’s the number of tablets Apple sold to schools and colleges in the year before the current school year. It’s roughly double the number sold in the education market during the previous year. In …

Expanding Options for Publishing: The New Hybrid Author

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There have been some fantastic reflections of late on the emerging powerhouse that is the “hybrid author”. One of my recent favorites is Jane Friedman’s interview with CJ Lyons. Lyons discusses her experience on the fronts of traditional publishing (big …

The Barnes & Noble Elephant in the Room at DBW 2013

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Digital Book World 2013 was, as always, brimming with possibility, cautious optimism, and the energy of an industry in full-sail transformation. Within that optimism though, was some troubling data presented by Codex Group CEO Peter Hildick-Smith, which suggested that, despite …

Publishing Senior Executives Come to Grips With Post-Bookstore World

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With the closure of Borders, shrinking library budgets and the pressure independent bookstores and Barnes & Noble are under due to the rise of ebooks and online book sales, bookstore and library shelf space has been shrinking markedly in the U.S. for several years. With less shelf space comes fewer opportunities for publishers to display their wares to consumers — and publishers are starting to come to grips with that future.

Kobo, and another two big players, landed in Brazil

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December 5th, 7:00pm. Kobo lands in Brazil in a partnership with Livraria Cultura, one of the best bookstores in the country and a pioneer on the online book sales business. The launch was at Livraria Cultura’s main store, in the heart …

Rewarding Readers– with Ebooks via Credit/Debit Card

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At the Digital Book World Discoverability Conference, many of the presenters kept getting back to involving readers in the process.  Some also mentioned giving readers “rewards”.  At Cool Gus Publishing, we’ve literally found a way to do that by teaming …

Brazilian books and bricks

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Hi everyone! My name is Ricardo, I’m new here. Since it’s my first post, I thought I’d introduce myself. I’ve been working on the book business in Brazil for the past 20 years. I began working in editorial, where I became …

The Great Publishing Wars of 2012

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In a decade, after the zombies have taken over the world and are hunting down the last of the vampire empire, they will look back at the great publishing wars of 2012 and go:  huh? I’ve retreated on the tactical …

Can Sony Bridge the Gap Between BEA & E3

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Last week at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo), Sony introduced a brand new offering for its PS3 platform - Wonderbook. Sony describes Wonderbook as: “A powerful storytelling vehicle and tool for the imagination, Wonderbook will bring exclusive content in immersive new ways by …

Should publishers become software firms?

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It’s time to stop suggesting publishers forget their heritage and become software companies. Software is a completely different business. While its conceivable (and highly likely) publishers will dramatically increase their arsenal of technological competence in the next 12-18 months, it’s …

Big Publishers, Big Books, Little Data

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Is Big Data the Key for Publishers Long-Term Success? Eric Schmidt, the Chairman of Google is fond of stating, “Did you know that every two days as much data is created as was created since the dawn of civilization until …

The Un-tapped Potential of Backlist

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While I am very big on looking to the future, there is one area where I think publishing should look to the past.  Traditional publishers are sitting on top of a gold mine that they have traditionally never exploited except …

Not Dead Yet!

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Always good to use a Python quote. I was wondering whether someone would respond. I titled the post a bit outrageously to get reactions and Jeremy Greenfield did in his post. When I say traditional publishing the focus is on …

The Publishing Mind Shift

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The Publishing Mind Shift The biggest change in publishing is under our control—if we allow it. It is our own mind shift in how we approach things. This video was shared with me by a student in a publishing course. …

Was March 2012 the month Traditional Publishing died?

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I have come to the conclusion that March 2012 was the month traditional publishing died.  They just don’t know it yet. I tweeted this the other day.  All day I’d been reading blog posts, news articles, and discussing it with …

Digital Reading: Renaming the (Digital) Book

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Speaking of user experience—we haven’t yet discovered the word that will describe the digital, transmutable, readable, platform-agnostic, weightless, immersive, elastic … creation, hitherto known as a book. We should hurry up and get this naming process started. Why should we …