The National Association of Independent Publisher Representatives has upgraded their Frontlist Plus catalogue/catalog (it’s North America wide) ordering system to keep the best of the sales rep experience while losing some of the cheque/checkbook hurting paper costs.
Books Make Great Gifts Part Deux
Could the Recession Help Small Bookstores?
Will this recession bring about the death of the stand-alone big box store? With the October announcement of Linens n Things folding (sorry) and reports of Black Friday sales migrating to online retailers, Michael Cairn’s perspective at TeleRead makes for some interesting reading.
Cairns suggests that the recession driven toppling of the suburban-sprawling big box stores, there may be even more opportunity for eBooks.
Books Make Great Gifts
A Christmas Story
The Wall Street Journal reported on a press release that Comscore, a company that tracks just about everything online, released. Comscore has forcasted flat growth for the 2008 holiday e-commerce spending. They report an unprecedented 4-Percent decline during the first 23 days of November vs. corresponding shopping days in 2007.
What I found interesting in the WSJ article was a comment at the bottom by someone lamenting the demise of the shopping experience in Shopping Malls.
What I found interesting in the WSJ article was a comment at the bottom by someone lamenting the demise of the shopping experience in Shopping Malls.
Random House to Digitize Thousands More Books
The Associated Press reports on Random House’s plan to expand their eBook offerings from 8,000 to 15,000 titles.
Best Practices to the Rescue
The most recent IDPF BSIG call highlighted the cost of success. Epub adoption has been happening all over the place with some publishers creating only epub and device manufacturers seeing the wisdom of supporting epub, but with this success has come the growing pains of a young standard in the wild.
Does Google Now Own the Long Tail?
Adobe Content Server 4
Nick Bogaty, who used to be at the IDPF and is now with Adobe, conducted a webinar recently to explain how ACS4 fits into the ebook ecology. Adobe is pushing their ACS4 (Adobe Content Server 4) to Publishers who sell direct (host their own content), distributors who provide protected content to retailers and libraries, solution providers, and retailers and libraries.
