Tim Middleton

September 26, 2008

The Editor Is an Island of Knowledge

Tim Middleton

September 26, 2008

Nicholas Blake is editorial manager at Pan Macmillan. His job now includes digital as well, which means he needs to think about Pan Macmillan’s eBook and online publishing programme. Below are his top ten “islands of knowledge” for editors thinking about ebooks.

Morgan Cowie

September 25, 2008

Publishing

Zoho Saves Trees, Time, and Postage

Morgan Cowie

September 25, 2008

Publishing

Zoho.com, an up and comer in the world of online document creation, offers a wide selection of document types that you can create online, manage and share with your colleagues and friends.

Morgan Cowie

September 4, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

Small Publishers Get Big Technology

Morgan Cowie

September 4, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

Perseus Books Group has brokered a deal with leading tech companies to provide digital book technology to small publishers at reasonable rates.

Tim Middleton

August 20, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

Lonely Planet on Nokia

Tim Middleton

August 20, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

If you are one of those other people who use one of those other phones, namely Nokia, then you may have had occasion to use Nokia Maps.

Morgan Cowie

August 6, 2008

Bookselling, Marketing, Publishing

Social Networks and New Business Models

Morgan Cowie

August 6, 2008

Bookselling, Marketing, Publishing

With Amazon acquiring Abebooks (and a 40% share in LibraryThing with it), it seems as good a time as any to take a look at some of the business models online social networks are creating. (Attempting to create? Maybe.)

Michael Tamblyn

August 2, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks, Standards & Metadata

Mortal Combat in ISBN-Land

Michael Tamblyn

August 2, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks, Standards & Metadata

This falls into the department of “little decisions with major ramifications”. While most of the industry maneuvers through vacations and sales conferences, there is a fight brewing between publishers, standards agencies, and other interested parties about ISBNs and eBooks.

Morgan Cowie

July 24, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

TiVo: The New Local Bookseller

Morgan Cowie

July 24, 2008

Bookselling, Publishing

It’s bookselling for the instant gratification generation. Watching an author interview or segment on a book that catches your attention? TiVo now has an online menu onscreen that allows you to buy books directly from Amazon—using your TV.

Morgan Cowie

July 23, 2008

Publishing

Mobile Web: Moving from the Stone Age (of 2007)

Morgan Cowie

July 23, 2008

Publishing

Scott Loganbill of Webmonkey.com offers his comments on the current state of the mobile web regarding what’s working and what could still use some work.

Morgan Cowie

July 9, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

Love Is in the Hyperlink

Morgan Cowie

July 9, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

Harlequin announced today for the same price as regular eBooks, they will now be selling Enriched Edition eBooks which will include interactive buttons with links to Web sites containing photos, historical commentaries, illustrations, sound effects, maps and articles.

Michael Tamblyn

June 26, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

Random House, M&S, Indigo Try E-Book Giveaway

Michael Tamblyn

June 26, 2008

Publishing, Ebooks

If you go to www.chapters.indigo.ca sometime before Friday, June 27th, you’ll be able to download a trio of Canadian titles for free: Paul Quarrington’s King Leary, Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness, and Peter Robinson’s Friend of the Devil. A bold move, considering that each of these are moving quite well in retail today.