Top Stories: November 28-December 2, 2011

Info overload vs. consumption, how big data is shaping business, and why we need the "paperless book."

Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week.

Don’t blame the information for your bad habits
Clay Johnson, author of “The Information Diet,” says information consumption, not the information itself, is what needs to be managed.

Big data goes to work
Alistair Croll looks at how data is shaping consumer expectations and how those expectations, in turn, are shaping businesses. He also examines where business intelligence stops and big data starts.

The paperless book
Todd Sattersten: “The publishing world needs some new language that describes what happens and, more importantly, what is possible when the words are separated from the paper.”

How Twitter helps a small bookstore thrive
Learn how Omnivore Books, a cookbook store in San Francisco, uses Twitter to solidify relationships with customers and break through the publisher blockade.

Web-first workflows let publishers focus on the stuff that really matters
In a recent keynote, PressBooks founder Hugh McGuire said web-first workflows streamline book production so publishers can focus on more important matters, such as writing, finding, and editing great books.


Tools of Change for Publishing, being held February 13-15 in New York, is where the publishing and tech industries converge. Register to attend TOC 2012.

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