It’s overcast in Toronto, and a perfect day to test out BookOven’s cloud-based publishing project! BookOven, by its own admission, is “an online toolset that helps individuals and groups to make, improve, publish, and sell print books and ebooks.
Life Is to a Box of Chocolates as TOC Is to Flavours of Jam
Content Throws Off Covers, Stands Awkwardly
As publishers increasingly see the information between the pages as content, business models feel the push to change to accommodate the new possibilities of delivery. The pricing debate, though the talk was about format, inherently had content at its core. So what happens when content unleashed from the printed page?
EPUB and the iPad
The Agency Model: What Does It Mean for Publishers, Retailers, and Readers?
E-Reading on the iPad: Where Will Your Content Come From?
Now that that the iPad announcement excitement (and screams of “I lost sound, do you have sound?” from across the office) have died down, let’s take a look at the iPad as an e-reader.
iPad, iBooks, iAwesome?
As some of you may have heard, Apple had their big tablet announcement today. What? Apple tablet announcement? Crazy, I know. And, no, Steve Jobs didn’t ride out on a unicorn as we all (ok, maybe only the BookNetters) had hoped.
Here’s a breakdown of the details plus a more extensive look at the ebook element.
E-Book Pricing Impact on Print Formats?
BISG Releases E-Book Survey: But Are They Asking the Right People?
The Book Industry Study Group in the US has just released the first of three parts of a Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading study and while the initial results are intriguing, my sense is that the qualification they used for survey respondents is skewing results to make it look like more people are buying or are interested in buying e-books than might actually be true.
Noah Genner 2009 in Review: Breathe
As many have already stated 2009 was a year full of change and innovation in the book authoring, publishing and retailing world. Digital was/is the agent of change…eBooks, eReaders (of all kinds), digital workflows and networks (be they social or internet)…for the industry in 2009. It really seemed that many digital areas that had been bubbling under for the last while came to a head in 2009…all at once.
