Artists Bill of Rights. Books 2.0: The Future of Books and Publishing. Books blog + Booksellers. eBooks_Beyond_the_Hype.pdf (application/pdf Object) Essentials of Digital Books from the Consumer's Point of View: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, February 22 - 24, 2010, New York, NY. 1. Point of Sale Experience The optimal Point of Sale experience has not yet been created.
Every online bookstore has features that should be universal, and flaws that should be eliminated immediately. We’ll highlight the best of the retail features out there and the worst. 2. The actual ebook itself does not receive nearly enough attention. 3. Every sale is the beginning of an opportunity for a reader/vendor relationship: don’t waste it! 4. With all the talk about digital books “cannibalizing” print, we counter with a solution: merge digital and print bookshopping experiences. 5. Pricing is a major issue for ebooks right now. DRM is a major impediment to ebook purchasing. The Ibooknet Blog. Does the library have a role to play in the Digital Humanities?
Humanities and the social sciences have traditionally been disciplines aligned closely with the institutional library and its resources and services. Increasingly, in my conversations with librarians, there is a concern that while the library as a space remains popular, this masks a growing distance between the services the library provides and the needs and expectations of researchers (to say nothing of undergrads). As subjects like digital humanities find themselves transformed by their engagement with technology, is the library facing the threat of redundancy?
There has been a flurry of research recently including the RLUK report: Re-skilling for Research and JISC Collections’ UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources, exploring the evolving role of the library in supporting researchers. Similarly, Ithaka S+R in the US is exploring the changing support needs of scholars across a variety of disciplines. Bookstores Now, More than Ever | Booksquare. At next week’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference, I am moderating a panel on the future of bookstores (Tuesday, 2/15, 1:40 pm, be there!).
I proposed this topic because, despite today’s challenges, booksellers are critical to the publishing food chain. The loss of booksellers — traditional and innovative — is a huge blow to book discovery. My panel features Jenn Northrington of WORD Brooklyn, Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo of Greenlight Bookstore, Lori James of All Romance eBooks, Kevin Smokler of Booktour.com, and Malle Vallik of Harlequin. I’m excited about moderating this panel, particularly because it contains a mix of innovative and enthusiastic booksellers, forward-thinking publishers (yes, Kevin, you are a publisher), and, most importantly, readers who truly love reading. Nothing I say here reflects their thoughts and opinions. They may, in fact, disagree with what I say. But do I think (physical) bookstores will go the way of dinosaurs? I have a story. I know, I know. Bookselling in the 21st Century: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2011 - O'Reilly Conferences, February 14 - 16, 2011.
Essentials of Digital Books from the Consumer’s Point of View. Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing. 7 Platforms Changing the Future of Publishing and Storytelling. By Kirstin Butler Cutting out the middleman, or what the Nobel Peace Prize has to do with harnessing the potential of tablets. Depending on whom you ask, these are either the best or the worst of times for the written word. As with every other branch of traditional media, the Internet has pushed the publishing industry to a critical inflection point, something we’ve previously discussed. Disrupting the mainstream marketplaces for journalism, literature, and the fundamental conventions of reading and writing themselves, here are seven startups that promise to reshape the way we create and consume ideas. Byliner, whose beautifully designed site officially launched last week, is easily the most ambitious of the initiatives featured here.
The startup is both a publisher, via its Byliner Originals subsidiary, and a discovery platform for longform nonfiction, offering Pandora-like recommendation functionality. Bringing a crowdfunded model to books, the U.K. Do people read real books anymore? Bookstores struggle to survive. Large chains pushed out independent bookstores. Bookstore chains pushed each other out. Barnes & Noble, the last remaining bookstore chain, now stands alone. As eBooks replace print books, can Barnes & Noble survive Amazon.com in an online, digital world? The decline in physical brick and mortar bookstores has not gone unnoticed by the world at large. Small, independent bookstores quickly went out of business with the rise of major bookstore chains, such as B. Dalton Bookseller, Crown Books, Borders and Walden Books. It wasn’t hard to find a bookstore that carried the latest bestseller, the newest how-to guide hot off the presses, old classics or any book your heart desired. Read more...
“Surveys indicate that only a third of the people who step into a bookstore and walk out with a book actually arrived with the specific desire to buy one.” E-Books Beyond The Hype.