ENTRIES TAGGED "london book fair"

[LBF] This Way to the Egress, er, Ebooks

Along with my registration materials for the London Book Fair (sent to me by mail — a sign of how traditional most of the publishing industry remains) was a ticket to something called the "London eBook Show at the London Book Fair." At first glance, I was excited to see that ebooks would be featured so prominently at the…

[LBF] What Ex-Smokers and Ebook Early Adopters Have in Common

During a seminar today at the London Book Fair titled "How to Digitize your Content" (not to be confused with our own "Digitizing Your Backlist"), Penguin Group Digital Director Genevieve Shore shared some interesting insights about Penguin’s growing ebook program: Though Penguin USA has been selling ebooks for 10 years, 2007 was the first time they saw "interesting revenue"…

London Calling on your iPhone?

Just a friendly reminder: If you're headed to the London Book Fair next week with an iPhone in tow, don't forget to turn off data roaming. (And if you want to connect while you're there, drop me a line at andrew AT oreilly.com.)…