

2019 DBW Awards Winners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Digital Book World Reveals Winners of the 2019 DBW Awards
Honorees Represent Books, Publishers, Industry Leaders and Technology NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 11, 2019) – Digital Book World (DBW) – the gathering of the wide world of publishing – named the winners of the 2019 DBW Awards during a special ceremony and reception on the evening of Sept 10 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. "We are honored to recognize some of the best of the best with the 2019 DBW Awar

Putting Audio at the Heart of your Publishing Processes
To produce great audiobooks, you don’t need to reinvent the publishing wheel. In many respects, they can be managed in just the same way as any other content in the product hierarchy, making the most of existing resources. A well-designed publishing management system should be able to support the delivery of audiobooks just as it does hardbacks, paperbacks and ebooks. Here are eight important stages of the audio lifecycle—and how Virtusales’ Biblio suite supports them. Title

Publishing: Everybody's Doing It (25 Examples of Corporate Publishing)
We often refer to "the wide world of publishing" which comprises the Digital Book World audience: trade publishing, scholarly/academic publishing, independent publishing, educational publishing, and what we call corporate publishing. Companies and organizations in non-publishing sectors, from healthcare to automotive to banking and beyond, often have the need to publish all types of content internally and externally. This type of corporate publishing requires companies to con


Q&A with DBW 2019 speaker Charlotte Abbott (Founder, FutureProof Content Strategy)
I recently had the privilege of sitting down with publishing industry veteran and Digital Book World 2019 speaker Charlotte Abbott. She's the founder and director of FutureProof Content Strategy, and works with clients to create stories that drive results. Check out her interview below - enjoy. Let’s start with a summary of your publishing career. Are we still in publishing? My evolution from book editor to business journalist to content and audience strategist has taught me

Voice-First Technology And The Car: A New Frontier For Publishers
During the Super Bowl, this ad for Mercedes Benz aired, which clearly demonstrates how expectations for voice technology (more properly, voice-first technology) have progressed to encompass the modern car: The implication here is that everything is possible by using our voices and talking to objects around us. And, indeed, this is the destination that voice-first technology has us headed toward. Digital Book World has come to incorporate voice technology within the broad purv

New for Digital Book World 2019: The DBW Celebrity Roast. First up? BISG's Brian O'Leary.
Digital Book World announced this morning that part of Digital Book World 2019 will be a Celebrity Roast of none other than Brian O'Leary, the Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group. DBW 2019 registered attendees will automatically be registered to attend the Roast, which will take place Tuesday night, September 10, at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee (the same location as the rest of DBW 2019). The Roast will be a fundraising event for BISG, co