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Posts tagged: ebooks
The Future of Publishing at the Executive Exchange
Last week, Publishing Technology hosted its annual Executive Exchange customer event in New York, where 20 publishers, industry consultants, press representatives and Publishing Technology executives gathered together to interact, network and exchange information on ways to “move your content forward … Continue reading
Are you for or against fixed book prices? Publishing Perspectives Survey
The recent end of the US Department of Justice’s anti-trust case against publishers and Apple has ensured that the issue of e-book price fixing and, by extension, the question of fixed book prices a regular spot in the headlines. The … Continue reading
Pew research gives librarians 10 lessons in e-reading
The Pew Research Center’s reports on patterns of usage and uptake for digital technologies have become something of a gold standard for defining how the Internet is reshaping American life. Last month, Pew’s researchers turned their attention to the e-book … Continue reading
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Last week The Guardian published a very interesting article on e-book lending in the UK, Pay us for library ebook loans, say authors which highlighted how the growing use of e-books is shaking up some pretty fundamental assumptions about the … Continue reading
UK students lead the world in digital reading
The most surprising thing we learned in the past week is that university students in the UK are world leaders when it comes to digital reading. In a global study of more than 6,300 students conducted by ebrary, 58% of … Continue reading
In Defence of Trade Publishing
Publishing as collaboration, spam e-books and the publisher as risk taker I’ve read quite a few articles recently which have sought to call time on trade publishing. Many of them, written by evangelists for the self-publishing movement, argue from the … Continue reading
The new breed of transmedia companies – and 6 factors for success
One of the things we do at Publishing Technology is help publishers realize the transition from print being based businesses to media businesses. Many book publishers are most of the way there, having made the leap from viewing themselves as … Continue reading
10 recommendations for the future of scholarly publishing
It’s now acknowledged within the publishing industry that Christmas 2011 was the time when digital reading officially went mainstream, with sales of ebooks and ereaders rocketing on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet while the consumer landscape has exhaustively well … Continue reading
Amazon Kindle Fire – a social media round-up
The biggest news in publishing & technology this week has to be Amazon’s announcement on Wednesday that it was entering the tablet computer market with the Kindle Fire. A device with some innovative features and an attractive price point of … Continue reading
Beijing Book Fair – a social media round-up
Publishing Technology has been at the Beijing International Book Fair this week. For those who couldn’t make it to the show we’ve put together a round-up of the event to date using the news, links and content that people have … Continue reading
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