ENTRIES TAGGED "publishing"
TOC hosting publishing startup showcase
Deadline for submissions is January 10, 2011.
TOC's first Publishing Showcase will give you — and your business — a chance to get in front of hundreds of potential users and investors. Submissions are due by Jan. 10, 2011.
Publishing needs a social strategy
Social recommendations and remixes can benefit the publishing industry.
Up until now, ebooks have mostly been quick-and-dirty conversions of the print product. Joe Wikert looks forward to a future where social options, like recommendations and remixes, fully harness the ebook medium.
Open-ended publishing
Digital content isn't defined by editions, so let's stop thinking that way.
Content creators are trained to create defined editions: a book, an article, a movie, etc. Yet, digital content doesn't work that way. It flows and mashes up, dissipates and then reassembles. That's why it's time for a mental shift toward open-ended publishing.
Sifting Through All These Books
We have a massive and growing supply and demand imbalance in the book business. And, as the technologies for creating and distributing books becomes trivial, the supply of books is just going to keep growing exponentially…. How are people going to sift through all these books to find what they want?
Yes the iPad is sexy, but global sales are the real ebook growth news
A deep look at the ebook growth opportunities in global markets and how direct sales can offset print book cannibalization.
iPad and ebooks: Lots of unanswered questions
An iPad simulator isn't the same as the real device, and that's going to slow things down
Liza Daly says a host of unanswered questions about the iPad's ebook functionality coupled with the disconnect between simulators and hardware, will delay publishing innovation. But one upside: the iPad's hardware will ultimately benefit both native apps and web-based apps.
The future of publishing lives on and around the web
Richard Nash outlines his gameplan for uniting audiences and content
Richard Nash is passionate about the web’s ability to connect audiences and authors with the topics that excite them. Connections can be fleeting and the revenue model is in flux, but there’s a lot of opportunity in this model. What Nash discusses in this short video interview could very well be a blueprint for future publishing businesses.
Bringing e-Books to Africa and the Middle East
Infrastructure, economics and censorship are major issues
In the United States, Western Europe and Asia, e-Books are becoming a major player, especially now that e-Readers like the Kindle and Nook are available. But people living in the Arabic speaking world or Africa haven’t been invited to the dance. Two of the keynote speakers at the upcoming O’Reilly Tools of Change conference are working to improve access to e-Books in these areas: Arthur Attwell in South Africa and Ramy Habeeb in Egypt. We talked to each of them about how e-Books are important in their area of the world, and the challenges that they are facing.
A Classic from the Archive: Tim O'Reilly interviewed in 1994
Unfortunately I don't remember who pointed me to this (it was a few months ago via Twitter I think), but I came across it while cleaning off my Mac desktop. It's open government maven Carl Malamud interviewing Tim O'Reilly (mp3 link) from a weekly series (something that 10 years later would properly be called a "podcast"), and a lot…
Worldwide Lexicon: matching up technologies and culture to end the language barrier
Essays by Brian McConnell of
World Wide Lexicon
and Ethan Zuckerman
of
Global Voices
describe the technical and cultural sides of developing communities of
volunteer translators.