Individuals working in different areas of the book supply chain share their visions for book production & operations, EDI, and libraries in the next twelve years.
BNC Visits the Espresso Book Machine at McMaster University
Earlier this week, the BookNet team took a field trip to Titles McMaster University Bookstore to check out their Espresso Book Machine (EBM). Mark Lefebvre, BNC Board member and our gracious host for the day, took us on a tour of Titles and gave us a live demo of the EBM (with some help from Laura the EBM magician).
Don’t know what an EBM is?
Bookselling Innovation That Will Save the Industry
EBooks, eReaders and eBooksellers are all the rage in publishing reporting. Amazon announces that Christmas Day 2009 was the first Christmas where eBooks outsold their print counterparts. Kobo announces a new global strategy.
Mark Leslie Lefebvre 2009 in Review: Plus ça Change, Plus c'est la Même Chose
Mark Leslie Lefebvre is a blogger, a writer and an innovative bookseller at McMaster University. There’s a rumour going around that he also plays a mean jazz flute.
Get Me Print-On-Demand Stat!
FastPencil & Book Oven: Learning from Self-Publishing Models
Whether you consider all self-publishing a dismissable legacy of offline vanity publishing, the future of the book business or something in between, it’s worth paying attention to tools like FastPencil.
Honest to POD: Random Collection
Starting in January, Random House will be selling new copies of out-of-print books via a new e-commerce website called the Random Collection. The site will start with 750 titles, will be searchable and allow for feedback from booksellers and other customers on suggestions for future titles.
Some, like Joseph Esposito at Publishing Frontier and Mike Shatzkin at IdeaLogical, have suggested that this plan doesn’t work if the goal is brand-extension.
The Espresso Picks Up Steam
Find New Partners for Digital Initiatives
You’ve decided to adopt new digital strategy like Print-on-Demand or eBooks. Now what? How do you find the partners, vendors or service providers that will help you make it happen? O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing has set up a nifty online directory of suppliers and events that will allow you to find out who to speak with to make your move.
