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14 Dec 09

Authors and Publishers Argue Over Digital Rights to Older Books - NYTimes.com

  • the question of exactly who owns the electronic rights to such older titles is in dispute, making it a rising source of conflict in one of the publishing industry’s last remaining areas of growth
  • Markus Dohle, chief executive of Random House, sent a letter to dozens of literary agents, writing that the company’s older agreements gave it “the exclusive right to publish in electronic book publishing formats.”
07 Dec 09

Washington Post, Amazon.com link up for book sale experiment

  • The Washington Post and Amazon.com are joining forces for an e-commerce experiment. When books are mentioned in Post articles and reviews, the newspaper links to an online store powered by Amazon, where readers can buy the books in question. The Post then receives a percentage of any sales.
04 Dec 09

37signals - Jason Fried Interview - Time Out Chicago

  • Jason Fried doesn’t want to be your friend. At least not on Facebook.
  • At 37signals, building Web applications requires no meetings, no official titles and no PR firm to hype the company’s projects. The work week is only four days long, and the compact workforce of 15 telecommutes more than 75 percent of the time.
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03 Dec 09

On The Media: Book It

Too many books, not enough profits. That is the lament of many publishers these days. Plus, there's the fear and loathing engendered by e-books. So, what is the state of the book industry and what can we expect in the coming years? Brooke takes a look at the present and future of books.

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  • Book It



    Too many books, not enough profits. That is the lament of many publishers these days. Plus, there's the fear and loathing engendered by e-books. So, what is the

    state of the book industry and what can we expect in the coming years? Brooke takes a look at the present and future of books.

  • Books 2.0



    In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear, readers will help write a book while they're reading it. Skeptical? You're not the first. Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book is used to skepticism, but he's

    seen the future and he's here to talk about it.

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20 Nov 09

Google to Caption YouTube Videos - NYTimes.com

This could be interesting and beneficial in terms of SEO of videos

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  • Google also introduced a related service to give anyone who uploads a video to YouTube the option of uploading as well a text file of the words spoken in the video. Google will turn the text file into captions, automatically matching the spoken words with the files.
  • the captions will make it easier for anyone to search text inside videos and find specific snippets within a video
18 Nov 09

Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading - NYTimes.com

  • Does the future of book reading lie in dedicated devices like the Kindle, or in more versatile gadgets like mobile phones?
  • People once scoffed at the idea of reading a book on a 3.5-inch mobile screen. For many readers, though, sheer convenience trumps everything else.
09 Nov 09

The Immortal Book Tour: Rebecca Skloot

  • The people at Crown, my publishing house, said, “We don’t really do book tours anymore,” and “They’re just not the best investment of publicity funds.” My agent agreed. They explained cost-benefit ratios and said their money was better spent on banner ads, buzz campaigns, and bookstore placement. Instead of talking about a tour bus covered with cells, they talked of blogs and satellite radio tours, of Twittering and Facebooking to interact with readers.
  • I don’t believe all tours are dead, just the old-fashioned kind, where publishers organize events and writers simply show up hoping for a room full of people. I agree that social networking and online campaigns are the most important tools in book publicity. But I don’t see book tours and the online world as separate entities. Rather than replacing tours, I believe the new virtual world of book publicity can help keep them alive.
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A peek at the future of interactive storytelling? | EverydayUX: Everyday User Experience by alex rainert

  • I was completely blown away by this video the first time through. Such a simple, low-tech, solution produces such an amazingly rich, engaging experience that’s just bursting with possibility for further creativity.
  • While it’s just a concept at this point, you can see how it can make a new kind of storytelling available to the masses in a way that wouldn’t have seemed possible not that long ago.
06 Nov 09

Twitter lists and real-time journalism - CNN.com

Crown now has a Twitter List for all its authors who are on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/CrownPublishing/authors

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twitter social networking tools

  • The Twitter community is abuzz this week about the site's new "Lists" feature, which allows users to create collections of interesting people to follow on the micro-messaging service.
  • Twitter has provided its members with the tools required to splice a torrent of updates into a series of relevant, topic-based streams.
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30 Oct 09

The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

  • Demand Media has created a virtual factory that pumps out 4,000 videoclips and articles a day. It starts with an algorithm.


    The algorithm is fed inputs from three sources: Search terms (popular terms from more than 100 sources comprising 2 billion searches a day), The ad market (a snapshot of which keywords are sought after and how much they are fetching), and The competition (what’s online already and where a term ranks in search results).
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