Note: Ted Treanor, founder of NetGalley, has just joined the Gilbane Group as a senior publishing strategies consultant. Congratulations, Ted. – P.B. The video shows a Sony prototype of an OLED color e-book reader that rocks. One complaint of my speed reading friend is that page-flipping on any current e-reader interrupts his reading when he flips to the next page while the screen pulls in the content. Wait until you see the smooth and rapid page-flipping technology from Sony. The video is from last week’s Ceatec conference in Tokyo. To succeed in...

Editor's Note: Here's a contribution by digital publishing and eBook strategist Ted Treanor. His website is here and you can follow him on Twitter. Unfortunately the chart he refers to is copyrighted and I don't think fair use will permit me to duplicate it. However you can find it at the Publishing Perspectives website. Paul Biba The list [include chart of 20 co’s] of the top 20 publishers in the world shows a profoundly changing landscape in book publishing. The original post by Rüdiger Wischenbart at Publishing Perspectives in Germany, provides excellent analysis of the changes, and...

Ted Treanor, our latest contributor, is notable for founding NetGalley and other important sites. Ted’s bio appears at the end. He is now a publishing consultant with The Consulting Garage. Welcome, Ted! – D.R. So what’s Amazon’s digital strategy? Let’s follow the money trail. In 2005  Amazon bought BookSurge and Mobipocket in one month. That clearly showed a commitment to both digital and traditional book publishing. Significantly, Amazon saw the potential of print on demand. And it wanted an infrastructure to support its activities not just in books but also in other industries, too. Here is an awesome link to a visualization of...