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 amazingly prolific author who has written in multiple genres including YA and memoir, and who has worked with a range of different sized publishers, from Gotham Books to Temple University Press. Kephart’s new YA novel, Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent, was just published on Wednesday and her next book, Handling...

Some of you may remember a post we ran last Wednesday, May 1, about a ridiculous website calling itself Blognix, and which had seemingly cloned TeleRead's entire site—content, design and all. Well, I suppose I was remiss in mentioning that just two days later, and without too much of a hassle, frankly, the head of NAPCO's IT department succeeded in squashing Blognix like the sad and pitiful little project it was. Incredibly though, Blognix morphed like an amoeba almost immediately after ridding itself of its bogus TeleRead cloak; it's now cloning a website called Cheap Tech For Me. Take a look for...

Mike McEnaney spent nearly 10 years working as both an editor and a publisher of B2B photography and digital photography magazines for North American Publishing Company (NAPCO), the same organization that owns and operates both TeleRead and the Technology Tell network of websites. Very recently, though, McEnaney struck out on his own. And somehow, along with fellow journalist Greg Scoblete, he has already managed to launch Your Digital Life, a website about the digital photography revolution. McEnaney and Scoblete's latest project, however, is an e-book, also about the world of digi-photography. From Fleeting to Forever: Enjoying & Preserving Your Digital Photos and Videos, as...

Those of you who read TeleRead regularly probably noticed that our coverage was a little bit thin last week ... but not to worry! I've got an alibi: I was in Las Vegas since last Sunday, covering the 2013 International CES for NAPCO—my employer, and TeleRead's parent company. This was my first-ever trip to CES, and while it was a huge milestone in my still-burgeoning consumer technology career, here's the God's honest truth: The experience totally and completely smacked the life out of me, both physically and psychologically. I walked for miles and miles, literally, every day. In fact, I walked so much—while at the same time straining...

The digital edition of the September/October 2012 issue of Book Business magazine just went online, and it features a couple e-book-specific stories you may be interested in. The cover story, for instance, "Inside the Ebook Test Kitchen," takes a good long look at some of the e-book world's latest advancements and technological achievements, from textbooks to apps to analytics. Any of you who happen to be involved professionally in the publishing field will definitely want to read J.S. McDougall's latest "E-Marketing Strategy" column, which discusses the harsh realities of branding in the Internet age. Click here to read the magazine's digital edition. (Book...

Marcus Leaver, President, Sterling Publishing: Will be three different businesses in the future: immersive text, illustrated text for children, illustrated text for adults. Future not half as scary as people make it out to be. Beautiful objects: quality will be the most important predictor of success.  With all the entertainement options out there qulaity will lead to success.  A lot of frtee content on the web and if consumers are going to pay for content  quality will be a deciding factor. World does not need another book: those who do less will succeed more. , Are publishing far too many books.  Need to create...

Josh Tyrangiel, Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek: At his magazine things are much better than they were. Greatest weapon is not taking things for granted. Started in 1999 at Time, which was considered the "top" magazine.  Had 450 editorial employees, but 7 years later this fell by about two thirds in all numbers.  And Time did better than most magazines.  The last decade was brutal for print.  Partly because many mangazines and newspapers had fallen into a malaise - just kept on cranking it out and didn't recogize the digital era.  Many of the titles that died in the past decade died because they...

That's the title of a press release from our owners.  I will be there covering programs I think will be of interest to our readers. Thousands of publishing executives from the book and magazine publishing industries will convene at the New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square, March 19-21, for the Publishing Business Conference & Expo—North America's largest conference and expo of its kind. The conference—produced by Publishing Executive and Book Business (industry-leading business)—features more than 40 sessions and nearly 100 speakers, including: David Carey, President, Hearst Magazines; Josh Tyrangiel, Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek; Josh Quittner, Editorial Director, Flipboard;...

The other day, our point of contact at our parent company NAPCO contacted Paul and me and asked if we would be interested in reviewing a 16-gigabyte iPad NAPCO had received. Paul suggested I should be the one to review it, and you could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned that I would be taking delivery of an iPad early next week. Plans I plan to do a series of review posts, just as I did for the Sony PRS-700 and the Astak 5” Pocket Pro, focusing on different aspects of...

Another one! Monday through Wednesday of next week I'll be in New York covering the NAPCO annual Publishing Business Conference & Expo. This is a bit of a different duck than the others as it has two tracks - books and magazines. There are also going to be some high powered speakers including Steve Forbes. One of the different things about this conference is that I will be a participant. I'll be moderating the panel New Business Models Made Possible With the Advent of E-books, which will be on Tuesday, March 9, at 11:30am. Please come...

TeleRead, the oldest English-language site devoted to general e-book news and views, is now owned by the Gadgetell subsidiary of North American Publishing Company (NAPCO). We closed the deal today. I’m leaving as editor-publisher, but Co-Editor Paul Biba (left photo) will remain---as full editor. What’s more, Senior Writer Chris Meadows (right), the second most frequent contributor, will stay. Both Paul and Chris have been e-book-lovers for eons, and publications ranging from the New York Times to the Guardian have quoted Paul over the years. Under Paul, who has supplied most of TeleRead’s posts since September 2008 and managed it...