d351235422 Penguin Random House, the Following Four, and the Future of Competition (Edward Nawotka, Publishing Perspectives, 5-31-13) Will Self-Publishing Counterbalance Trade Publishing Consolidation? (Edward Nawotka, Publishing Perspectives, 5-31-13) Number of Publishers Branded Reader Communities Set to Explode (Jane Tappuni, Publishing Perspectives, 5-14-13). The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead (Alexandra Alter, Media, NY Times, 9-22-15) "E-book subscription services, modeled on companies like Netflix and Pandora, have struggled to convert book lovers into digital binge readers, and some have shut down.The surprising resilience of print has provided a lift to many booksellers.Higher e-book prices may also be driving readers back to paper.It is also possible that a growing number of people are still buying and reading e-books, just not from traditional publishers.Will the next generation want to read books on their smartphones, and will we see another burst come?" Are books and the internet about to merge? (Damien Walter, The Guardian, 2-15-12) The difference between ebooks and the internet is minimal, and we should be glad the two are growing closer and closer. Be sure you know the answers to these questions! FAQ about ebooks from 52 Novels How Writers Can Turn Their Archives into eBooks (Carl Zimmer, The Atlantic, 10-14-10). Ebooks & Ebook Readers (Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer, several articles) Multimedia E-books: Immersive or Subversive? (Dennis Meredith, Research Explainer, 4-15-12) Publish Your Own Ebooks, with articles such as Several Options for Designing Ebook Covers (Gary McLaren, 10-25-11) Authors catch fire with self-published e-books .Carol Memmott, USA Today, 2-11, reports that young Amanda Hocking's self-published (digitally) young-adult paranormal novels are selling hundreds of thousands of copies through online bookstores. In the form they want it in. Main points, in brief (but read the details): 1. Publishers who pay attention will see those changes as they occur." On publishers accepting standardization (2-10-16). (Beverly Akerman, Globe & Mail 4-27-12).
* The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age (John Siracusa, ars technica – check out the comments after reading the article). Through distribution partnerships those e-books line the shelves of digital bookstores run by Apple, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Kobo. When Open Road Media launched in 2009, the idea of an all-digital publisher was still fairly new. Bowker Reports U.S. if:book (blog of The Institute for the Future of the Book, thinking about the evolution of publishing, education and creative labor in the digital age). E-singles, e-shorts, long-form journalism, and "read later" bookmarking systems (Narrative Nonfiction section, Writers and Editors website) The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens (Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 4-11-13). e-Books Best Practices: How to Produce and Sell eBooks (Larkin Flora, SPANnet.org, on SPAN's tips and best practices) EBook Conversion Services Directory, an invaluable directory courtesy of book designer Joel Friedlander (Marin Bookworks), which you can sort by providers or by format you want to produce. Calibre is an eBook management system that works with most formats, but not Kindle. So publishers are facing one set of challenges with their high ebook prices; theyll create another set if they lower them. How smart phones have affected book publishing, why more books are read on Androids now, with their open source coding, but why Apple (with its proprietary software) may be positioned to lead changes in the industry; how Amazon and Goodreads lead in discovery (if I liked this book, what other books am I likely to enjoy) and how the big six publishers (don't) deal with Amazon's near-monopoly as a bookseller.
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