Three Small Ideas for 2011 December 21, 2010 | DBW | 5 Greg Verdino | “Facebook isn’t one single network with 500 million members; it’s 500 million distinct, personal, niche networks.”
Bridges Of Virtue: Indie Publishers As The Golden Mean September 21, 2010 | DBW | 21 By Paolo Chikiamco | “The Internet also allows an Independent Publisher to collaborate with the most important partner of all – the readers.”
Can Digital Expand the Audience for Comic Books? August 9, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 11 By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “The price pressure on digital copies is likely to increase in a downward direction.”
DBW Weekly Roundup: 7/23/10 July 23, 2010 | DBW | 4 The most interesting news, commentary and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world.
eBook vs. Hardcover: Beyond the Headlines July 20, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 42 By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | In the midst of the Kindle hype, Bezos made a point of noting that “our hardcover sales continue to grow.”
DBW Weekly Roundup: 7/9/10 July 9, 2010 | DBW | 1 The most interesting news, commentary and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world.
Digital Strategies: Learning from Comics Publishers June 23, 2010 | DBW | 8 WEBcast: Innovative approaches to digital comics, windowing, and the pros and cons of having a highly engaged readership.
Community vs. Commerce (Roundtable: 6/24/10) June 23, 2010 | DBW | 4 Topic: Community vs. Commerce || Roundtable: 6/24/10 Community vs. Commerce [ 35:11 ]
Digital Strategies: Learning from RPG Publishers June 17, 2010 | DBW | 19 WEBcast: Innovative approaches to eBooks and POD, and the pros and cons of having a highly engaged readership.
F+W Media, Ingram in eCommerce Collaboration June 2, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 3 “The agreement will add approximately 500,000 additional book titles…”
The Amazon Effect (Roundtable: 5/20/10) May 19, 2010 | DBW | 10 Topic: The Amazon Effect || Roundtable: 5/20/10 The Amazon Effect [ 36:08 ]
What Will Be the Big Digital Issues in January 2011? May 16, 2010 | DBW | 5 By Mike Shatzkin || “Today’s blog is to recruit the readers of The Shatzkin Files [and DigitalBookWorld.com] to help too.”
Killer iPad Apps for Publishers: ComiXology April 19, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 8 By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “Some ideas on what ‘eBooks’ might offer in an increasingly transmedia digital book world.”
Publishers Need to Fail Better, Cheaper, Faster April 16, 2010 | DBW | 15 By Rebecca Smart || “Those closest to the consumers are those best-equipped to come up with the ideas for future experiments.”
Discoverability: Still A Book’s Biggest Problem April 8, 2010 | DBW | 42 By Cecilia Tan || “With an ebook, there is no physical store, no physical shelf.”
Digital Comics: Level the Playing Field, Part II April 2, 2010 | DBW | 5 By Jim Fallone || “No other print medium is better suited to take advantage of the screen.”
Digital Comics: Level the Playing Field, Part I March 31, 2010 | DBW | 10 By Jim Fallone || “Converting to digital means everyone starts from scratch.”
Digital Comics: Competing with Marvel and DC March 29, 2010 | DBW | 3 By Jim Fallone || “Marvel and DC saw this coming and have already established their digital strategies.”
Digitize Your Career: Marketing & Editorial Forum March 19, 2010 | DBW | 17 Digitize Your Career: Marketing & Editorial Forum: Practical tactics on how to implement the latest strategies and tools into your existing workflow.
Synergizing the Book and Web: The Future…? March 4, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 4 By Marian Schembari || “With intiatives like these, who could possibly worry about the future of publishing?”
TOC Takeaways (Roundtable: 2/25/10) February 25, 2010 | DBW | 3 Roundtable: 2/26/10 || Topic: #TOCCON Takeaways #TOCCON Takeaways [ 31:13 ]
Getting Noticed: Everyone’s an Online Marketer February 19, 2010 | DBW | 8 By Iris Blasi || “I don’t know how to publish an author who will not engage online.”
How Publishers Can Build Their Own Communities February 18, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 15 By Marian Schembari || “If you’re in marketing and in publishing and not in social media, you’re not going to have a job.”
Learning from Ellora’s Cave February 16, 2010 | DBW | 16 By Tim Brandhorst || “The laughter was gradually replaced by an awed silence as Raelene Gorlinsky described with perfect clarity how Ellora’s Cave has evolved.”
The New Farm System: From Blog to Book February 12, 2010 | DBW | 33 By Iris Blasi || Not everything from the web works; “It takes more art and timing to get it right than you might think.”
Macmillan Authors Rally Fans in Battle with Amazon February 5, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 9 “If niche is truly the key to publishing survival, then there appears to be at least one division of Macmillan that’s well-positioned.”
Is Niche the Key to Publishing Survival? February 3, 2010 | Marian Schembari | 20 By Marian Schembari || “To try to be a generalist as a small publisher is basically suicide.”
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