ENTRIES TAGGED "digital"
New ethics for a new world
The biggest threat that a data-driven world presents is an ethical one.
The miracle of a thumbnail image from Mars
The Curiosity rover marked its Mars landing with a small photo. Think about all the work that went into that one shot.
State of the Computer Book Market, part 5: Wrap-Up and Digital
A look at top tech authors, the growth of ebooks and the effect of direct distribution.
The fifth and final post in the 2011 "State of the Computer Book Market" report examines digital content purchase patterns and e-distribution channels.
Now available: "Breaking the Page" preview edition
The big question: How do we make digital books as satisfying as their print predecessors?
The three chapters in the free preview edition of "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience" focus on browsing, searching, and navigating.
Reports of marginalia's demise have been exaggerated
Digital didn't kill marginalia. In fact, digital could turn it into a revenue source.
As The New York Times bemoans the death of marginalia, forward thinking members of the publishing community have visions of a new digital revenue stream.
The chaos and the opportunity in Arab publishing
Egyptian publishing is far more chaotic than its Western counterparts. ISBNs are used fleetingly and book rights are a moving target. But that same chaos also breeds opportunity, particularly in the mobile and digital publishing spaces. Ramy Habeeb, director and co-founder of Kotobarabia, sat down with us at TOC 2010 to discuss the current state of Arab publishing as well…
Amazon's Physical vs. Digital Dissonance
In March of 2008, I wrote about the frustrating experience of trying to get this blog added to Kindle. Fourteen months later, apparently that “rather large ingestion queue” is still full, because the blog never showed up, and I never heard another peep about it. (There is now a self-publishing feature for blogs, but as with their self-publishing book feature (known as DTP), the standard terms of service you must accept to participate aren’t something many commercial publishers will be willing or eager to swallow.)
Good Company Culture Comes in Small Packages
Small publishers' culture of experimentation-by-necessity gives them a leg up on the large publishing "dinosaurs."
The Economic Realities of Digital-Only Newspapers
Alan Mutter has an incisive analysis explaining why an all-digital strategy would be unacceptably painful for the majority of established newspapers: Because newspapers on average derive approximately 90% of their sales from print advertising, the only ink-on-paper newspapers that can afford to attempt digital-only publishing are the ones that are irreversibly losing money. Moving to digital publishing is the…
"None of this is good or bad; it just is"
Lev Grossman takes a pragmatic look at the changing state of authors, readers, and the definition of publishing: Self-publishing has gone from being the last resort of the desperate and talentless to something more like out-of-town tryouts for theater or the farm system in baseball. It's the last ripple of the Web 2.0 vibe finally washing up on publishing's…
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