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24 Nov 09

Meet publishers' enemy No. 1: Cory Doctorow - The Globe and Mail

"he traditional publishing industry's worst nightmare arrived in Toronto this week when science-fiction author Cory Doctorow addressed the TD National Reading Summit on the burning question of “How to Destroy the Book.” "

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08 Nov 09

GiantChair - Home

By empowering publishers with a custom marriage of modern metadata, web and e-commerce tools, GiantChair helps publishers optimize their online catalogs in order to sell more books, in both paper and digital formats. "

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21 Oct 09

The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press

John Willinsky: "This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."

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OPENACCESS publishing ebooks technical economics

thedigitalist.net » Revisiting a publishing manifesto - what does the future look like for publishers?

"Latest figs from AAP (Association of American Publishers) put ebook sales up 173.9% through end July 2009.

A caveat to this …ebook sales made up just 0.6% of overall book sales in 2008 – according to Bowker - which explains the steep growth.

So – the ebook sales graph shows a lovely looking curve, but the steepness is really to do with the starting point. Growth always looks impressive from a zero base!

Let’s look at the ebook market another way. If you read the headline about Amazon’s Kindle, this sounds a bit like a revolution.

Day one of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and the Business Insider reports: “Kindle version of the book on top!” (The Business Insider 16.09.09)

Steve Windwalker at the Kindle Nation blog says this could be

“the biggest story of 2009 in the book trades.”

As he points out, the most popular book in the world is selling more copies as an electric version than a print version at the most popular bookstore in the world.

Or, another version of the story – one week later – in the same news source:

Kindle verdict: nothing special” The Business Insider, 22.09.09

“The Lost Symbol sold just 100,000 in e-books format according to Doubleday. Overall Doubleday sold 2 million copies. The 5% ratio of e-books to print is about in-line with the average for book sales.”

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12 Oct 09

The Book Oven:

"Book Oven helps teams of people turn manuscripts into finished books, and then publish them. It is built for writers, editors, proofreaders, designers and small presses."

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24 Jul 09

Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World

Key sentence (influenced by IF Book):
"We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading."

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