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Book Expo: Final Numbers

Lynn Rosen — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:45:38 +0000

BEA director Steve Rosato shared some attendance numbers earlier this week. With the caveat that these are raw numbers yet to verified by their third party audit, the figures represent very slight changes from 2012, as follows: • Total Industry Professionals 2013 = 19,615 = -.004% • Total Industry Professionals 2012 = 19,694 • Total Attendance 2013 = [...]

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Feeling Rudderless with the Loss of O’Reilly’s TOC? Consider This

Lynn Rosen — Sat, 11 May 2013 01:37:05 +0000

Much conversation and virtual space has been devoted over the last week to the announcement by O’Reilly that they are discontinuing the Tools of Change conference. The announcement stunned many, and lamentation abounded at the loss of what had been, for many, a forum for hearing new ideas and, equally important, an arena for networking [...]

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Look Who’s Talking: Book Business’ New Video Chat Series

Lynn Rosen — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:34:53 +0000

Last week, NAPCO‘s Publishing Media Group launched its new video chat series, Literally Speaking Publisher Chats. The chats will take place every Friday at 11 a.m. EST, and I will be speaking to a variety of publishing people. The fun new video platform Shindig is hosting our events. On Friday, May 3, I spoke with Beth Kephart, an [...]

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Happy International Day Against DRM!

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:05:59 +0000

Honestly, I hadn’t even heard about this until I woke up this morning and checked my phone, but apparently today—that’s Friday, May 3, 2013—is something of a holiday in the digital publishing community. It’s the fifth annual International Day Against DRM. Huh. The organization behind the holiday—which in reality is more of an awareness-raising movement—is known [...]

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BREAKING: O’Reilly Media Retiring the Tools of Change Conference and TOC Blog

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:15:04 +0000

Earlier today, O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly announced in a blog post that after seven years of hosting the Tools of Change for Publishing conference, a digital publishing event attended annually by many of the biggest names and most important members of the industry, the conference is being officially retired. Also folding along with the [...]

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New publishers use metadata to get marketing results

Susan Lulgjuraj — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:36:36 +0000

Data. Traditional publishers have not used the word often when it comes to marketing. But newer publishing companies are using data in a way traditional publishing houses have not, several members of a panel at PaidContent Live said in New York City on Wednesday. “The old evolution of traditional book publishers used to be very [...]

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At TOC, a Tempest of paradigm-challenging ideas on what an e-book can be and do

Lynn Rosen — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:07:20 +0000

O wonder! How many goodly books are there here! How beauteous publishing is! I attended the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) conference this past Tuesday and learned about a topic that captivates me: new forms that books are able to take when they are conceived as e-books. There is so much creative work being done [...]

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Our upcoming TOC 2013 coverage

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:39:06 +0000

O’Reilly’s annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference just got underway this morning at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. And while we unfortunately weren’t able to make it New York for the event’s first day, we will be on the scene, tweeting and reporting live, throughout days two and three. Today’s big TOC [...]

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Myanmar Makes History with its First Literary Festival

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:15:22 +0000

A truly historical literary event took place last weekend in Southeast Asia that doesn’t seem to have enjoyed quite as much attention from the Western media as it probably should have, and so we figured we’d briefly mention it here: During the first three days of February, Myanmar—the country still known to much of the world as Burma—held it’s first-ever [...]

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Read An E-Book Week Is Gearing Up

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:00:18 +0000

Author Rita Toews reached out to me recently and mentioned that Read an E-Book Week—that would be March 3-9—is currently in the process of gearing up for its 2013 festivities. This will be the event’s 11th consecutive year, by the way. And Toews tells me that any author, publisher or vendor who’s interested in being a [...]

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2013 Meeting Guide: At the publishing industry trade shows, hope and opportunity spring eternal

Aggregated Content — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:54:39 +0000

By Eugene G. Schwartz Where is the book industry going; what will my workplace and career opportunities be like; what do I need to know to keep up with the times? Or, in a more cosmic vein, what does the future hold? In an effort to answer these questions, publishers have settled each year into [...]

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Apple to announce new iPhone, (possibly) iPods October 4th

Chris Meadows — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:09:15 +0000

The next Apple event is set to take place on October 4th, and the invitation going out to journalists is captioned, “Let’s talk iPhone”. This caption has led to speculation on the part of tech journalists that the new iPhone will include advanced voice-recognition features that have been in the offing since Apple bought Siri [...]

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New iPod Touch could replace several gadgets at once

Chris Meadows — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:15:00 +0000

Sometimes we get accused of becoming an Apple blog, we post so much Apple-centric stuff, but there’s a reason for that. Apple might be obnoxious in its app approval behavior, closed in its development platform, and prudish in its gatekeeping, but there’s no denying that they make some damned fine e-book reading devices. My iPod [...]

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Apple to livestream today’s Steve Jobs event

Chris Meadows — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0000

Well, this is a first. Rather than waiting to post the video until several hours after the event, Apple will be livestreaming its presentation this morning…at least, to those with Macs, iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads. Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open [...]

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The challenges of running an e-book conference

Chris Meadows — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:54:10 +0000

Mike Shatzkin’s blog has an interesting essay about putting together an advisory council for the Digital Book World conference, and some of the challenges that come with running such a conference. One challenge has to do with knowing some change is going on or about to go on in digital publishing, but not knowing who [...]

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