ENTRIES TAGGED "editorial"
Edits as a storytelling device
Toggling edits on and off in ebooks could reveal deeper layers and intent.
The omissions and alterations behind books are often telling, and with a little technical know-how that information could be woven into ebooks.
Delivereads curates content for your Kindle
Dave Pell's Delivereads sends hand-picked web content to Kindles.
Curation just got a new platform — your Kindle. Dave Pell’s new project, Delivereads, delivers content from around the web via your Kindle email address.
For a Workflow Change, Support from the Top is Required
Last week Laura Dawson and I spoke about StartWithXML to a group of IT and operations people from publishers at the User Group meeting for Global Turnkey Systems, a company owned by one of our lead sponsors, Klopotek. We got some great questions afterwards. On reflection, we realized that they touched an important theme: the need for CEO-level support for…
Going Digital Gives Publishers Safety Net
Sarah Lacy provides an articulate and approachable list of digital lessons for book publishers. Her passage on going "electronic from the get-go" is an important reminder about the vital efficiences of digital content: You might be stunned to learn that in book publishing, once you get to the final manuscript stages, there is no electronic version. The manuscript is…
Links: The Simple Solution for Context
News consumers searching for context can be served through the Web's simplest tool: hyperlinks.
Some Quotables from OnCopyright 2008
I spent last Thursday at Copyright Clearance Center's OnCopyright 2008, and came away with some great lines from the panelists well worth sharing here.