While no one in the publishing world wants to halt the march of digital distribution, many would like to ensure the neighborhood bookstore doesn't go the way of the record store. That's why there are a growing number of people in the industry who are looking to disrupt the disruptors and show... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
BookExpo America's 2014 Global Market Forum will be have an exciting new focus, Books in Translation: Wanderlust for the Written Word. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Robert M. Sacks A book that I read a few years ago has been popping back into and around my head lately, as I continue my pursuit of the future of reading and the future of our publishing business. The Swerve ,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ray Bradbury imagined a world without the printed word, a universe where firemen started fires instead of stopped them, in a quest to burn forbidden books - till one of them started questioning why. Incidentally, the act of burning books is called "biblioclasm" or "libricide", and here's your... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2013-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite challenges faced by the publishing industry and past predictions, the written word has not seen its last day Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
I didn’t expect to quit paper so easily. Sure, I love technology, but I also love reading, and I’ve always found paper to be the most pleasurable delivery system for the written word. I stopped subscribing to a daily print newspaper around five years ago, but that was mostly because of price,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A year and a half since the Apple iPad was introduced, a new study shows that reading news has become a big part of what people use tablets for. But publishers still have a way to go to get people to pay for content on tablets. The newest look at peoples willingness to pay for content is a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]