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		<title>Quick Note: Bill McCoy to be the new Executive Director of the IDPF</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got an email from former IDPF Executive Director Michel Smith saying that Bill McCoy will be his replacement. From the press release: An experienced manager and entrepreneur, Bill most recently served as General Manager, Digital Publishing at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Bill previously served two terms on the IDPF Board of Directors, playing a key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smith leaving the IDPF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the release: Effective November 19, 2010 Michael Smith will be leaving the IDPF to pursue other opportunities in the digital book space. Mike has volunteered to work with the IDPF through its recruiting efforts and transition to a new Executive Director. It is hoped that this transition will be completed by early January 2011. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook sales grow 172% in August according to the IDPF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year to date ebook sales were up 192%. Here are the numbers. Remember, these numbers are always low because a lot of companies don&#8217;t report and they only represent trade book sales via wholesale channels. The IDPF says the retail numbers can be as much as double the amounts due to industry wholesale discounts.]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook sales down slightly &#8211; but IDPF figures are incomplete so are not a reliable indicator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The figures from the IDPF show a slight decline in ebook sales in Q2 10, but a huge increase in sales over Q2 09. What a lot of commentators on this subject miss, however, is that the IDPF is very clear about the caveats to these numbers. I will repeat them here: # The data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook growth charted in an annual format</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pastore of Epublishers Weekly, has redone the IDPF data and posted the above chart. This chart is done on an annual basis, as opposed to the IDPF chart which they do on a quarterly basis. It makes the data easier to see. Remember, the usual caveats to IDPF data apply to this chart as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ePUB logo announced &#8211; probably not very useful</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official ePUB logo has been announced. According to their web page the IDPF received 203 entries from 18 different countries, and the contest was won by Ralph Burkhardt from Stuttgart, Germany. You can find more details here. Of course, as a lawyer who has had a fair amount to do with trademarks and intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPF wholesale sales statistics for first quarter released &#8211; over 3 times greater than last year</title>
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		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-wholesale-sales-statistics-for-first-quarter-released-over-3-times-greater-than-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quarters Revenues Quarters Revenues Quarters Revenues Q1 02 $1,556,499 Q1 06 $4,100,000 Q1 10 $91,000,000 Q2 02 $1,258,989 Q2 06 $4,000,000 Q2 10 Q3 02 $1,329,548 Q3 06 $4,900,000 Q3 10 Q4 02 $1,649,144 Q4 06 $7,000,000 Q4 10 Q1 03 $1,794,544 Q1 07 $7,500,000 Q2 03 $1,842,502 Q2 07 $8,100,000 Q3 03 $1,789,455 Q3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Book 2010: DRM Update and copyright protection in the market</title>
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		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/digital-book-2010-drm-update-and-copyright-protection-in-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 02:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed McCoyd, Association of American Publishers; Ronald Schild, MVB Marketing; Bob Kohn, RoyaltyShare Inc. McCoyd: pirated books originate in 3 ways: scanned, commercially published ebooks with security broken, production files. Don&#8217;t know enough about impact on publishers&#8217; bottom lines. GAO report concluded that there is no reliable way to quantify impacts. Textbook publishers say they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPF Digital Book 2010: Predictions for 2011 and beyond (and another question dodged)</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-predictions-for-2011-and-beyond-and-another-question-dodged/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-predictions-for-2011-and-beyond-and-another-question-dodged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theresa Horner, Barnes & Noble; Corey Podolsky, Entourage Systems; Peter Balis, John Wiley &#038; Sons Horner: need consumer-driven product development. Need to think about the aesthetics of the book on the screen. Haven&#8217;t focused enough on selling the content, especially with older content. Have to figure out how to do a good shopping experience on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPF Digital Book 2010: Epub enhanced, interactive and connected (and a question dodged!)</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-epub-enhanced-interactive-and-connected-and-a-question-dodged/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-epub-enhanced-interactive-and-connected-and-a-question-dodged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Brantley, moderator, Internet Archive; Garth Conboy, eBook Technologies, Inc.; Liza Daly: Threepress Consulting Brantley: How to present materials that are not text in Epub. Book should be thought of as a place not just a thing. Conboy: the 2.1 effort will focus on this type of thing. 2.1 tasks include enhanced support for rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPF Digital Book 2010: Taking the Agency Model out for a spin: new ebook rules of the road for publishers</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-taking-the-agency-model-out-for-a-spin-new-ebook-rules-of-the-road-for-publishers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-taking-the-agency-model-out-for-a-spin-new-ebook-rules-of-the-road-for-publishers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erica Lazzaro, Overdrive; Bob LiVolsi, Books on Board; Andrew Weinstein, Ingram. Lazzaro: what new model meant to Overdrive. Expect that the agency model will be extended into international markets beyond Canada. Several countries around the world already use fixed pricing, i.e., Germany. Some new requirements: agent must enforce required ebook price; agent collects sales tax. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPF Digital Book 2010: Success stories from around the world</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-success-stories-from-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-success-stories-from-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Ruse, LibreDigital; Daihei Shiohama, Voyager Japan; Michael Tamblyn, Kobo Ruse: LibreDigital, Harlequin Mills &#038; Boon partnered in the UK to do ebooks and ecommerce site. A title is sold every 5 seconds in the UK. Got content production in place, do 70 titles per month. In M&#038;B site power a widget for each book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IDPF Digital Book 2010 &#8211; Welcome to the ebook revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-welcome-to-the-ebook-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-digital-book-2010-welcome-to-the-ebook-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Kerscher, IDPF President, DAISY Consortium; Garth Conboy, IDPF Chairman, eBook Technologies; Michael Smith, IDPF Executive Director; Steve Potash, Moderator, Overdirve Approximately 600 people are attending the conference Kerscher: epub standard has gained huge uptake. Withing 5 years have potential to have equal sales to print book. Want to form more working groups to revise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget the IDPF logo contest</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-logo-contest-commences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idpf-logo-contest-commences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From their website: The IDPF EPUB Logo Design Competition will accept design submissions for consideration for the official logo of the EPUB standard. .epub is a standard file format, developed by the IDPF, for reflowable digital books and publications. EPUB has been rapidly adopted as the standard interoperable distribution format for trade eBooks in North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook market exploding, says new iDPF survey</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ebook-market-exploding-says-new-idpf-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ebook-market-exploding-says-new-idpf-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) on Friday reported U.S. wholesale ebook sales for January, 2010 were $31.9 million, up 261 percent from the same month a year earlier. To put this in perspective, I created the chart at left. The chart compiles annual ebook [...]]]></description>
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