Okay, if you aren’t on twitter then you’re not following Tim O’Reilly as he microblogs the D: All Things Digital conference. If you were then you would have seen a short blast about stats re; The Kindle. And then you could have gone to his blog for more details. Or you can read his post here…
Innovate! And Don't Forget the Reader...
Last week the BISG hosted their annual Making Information Pay conference in New York. The theme of this year’s conference was From Experimentation to Innovation in the Digital Age with the keynote delivered by home grown Canadian, Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting.
Publishing's Innovators Take the Stage at Making Information Pay
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will host some of the most intriguing innovators in North America’s publishing scene at this year’s Making Information Pay on May 9,2008.
Digital News
While the London Book Fair was home to big news regarding digitization with Random House announcing their further rollout of digital books and Penguin announcing support for the open .epub standard, the IDPF BSIG (Business Special Interest Group) call this week centered around some practical guidelines for going forward with digitization.
The Digital Race Speeds Ahead
BNC Tech Forum 2008: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
PubFight Breaks the Big Time
PubFight: If the Book Business Is a Gamble, Learn How to Count Cards
Yesterday at the BookNet Canada Technology Forum, we provided the comic relief for the day by unveiling PubFight, the fantasy publishing/simulation/training arena for the Canadian book industry. For those that couldn’t be there for the raucous demonstration, here is the text that Tech Forum attendees received yesterday…