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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. Nothing I say here reflects their thoughts and opinions. But do I think (physical) bookstores will go the way of dinosaurs? My philosophy is for some books, online is awesome. Obviously, I have a vested interest in making sure the publishing ecosystem remains vibrant. “My No. 1 concern is the survival of the physical bookstore,” said Carolyn Reidy, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster. Her comment gave me pause for a few reasons. And deliver.
Richard Nash: You Are the Future of Publishing
Publishing is saddled with this terrible reputation for being reactionary and Luddite, our denizens known largely for caviling against technology and the new-fangled. It is perverse, truly perverse since publishing is in fact at the center of two major social revolutions that dramatically disrupted the status quo ante. The first, printing, we all know and understand to a degree, but let me remind all concerned, pace Clay Shirky, that printing upended the established religious and political orders in ways that radio, television entirely failed to do -- these latter media being readily co-opted for propagandistic purposes by the existing political and economic powers-that-were-and-are. The second, retail, is rarely discussed but booksellers were the first retailers to take their product from the back room and place it on shelves on the other side of the counter, for the public to see, touch, peruse. The consumer-centric approach to retail starts in the book business too.
No Longer Fired-up About DPS for Book Apps « Tina Henderson LLC book design & production
For publishers who want beautifully-designed digital books with more layout control than is available with epub, Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) can seem like a great option. DPS allows designers to reuse existing InDesign layouts and to have complete control over design and layout. In addition, DPS allows interactivity to be added through audio, video, slideshows, and much, much more. With this information, Adobe creates an app that can be distributed via Apple’s App Store. Early last year, I was excited by this option, especially when Adobe announced that single-edition apps, appropriate for a book, could be created for free by members of Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Then I heard that a DPS “book app” was rejected by Apple and not allowed into the App Store. A highly-recognized museum had submitted one of their most popular books as a DPS app. Knowing this, when I was approached last summer about producing a digital edition of an exhibition catalogue, I recommended iBA over DPS.
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.
Getting a read on the future of publishing
Crises spawn innovation, and despite regular headlines portending doom, the 21st-century publishing industry is bubbling with new ideas made possible by digital disruptions (and the odd hand-printing tool). Some will evaporate into thin air, while others change everything. But the level of activity today in Canada and the world strongly suggests that whatever the future brings, it will arrive in the capable hands of former book publishers. Herewith, seven trends to watch. One of the country's most ambitious digital publishing ventures began when the staff at Vancouver's Douglas & McIntyre asked a simple question: Why is there no iTunes for text? While some lament as digital technology drives down both production costs and potential remuneration to "content providers," others see new opportunities. Everybody knows that what we call an e-book today will evolve into something quite different as text sheds its Gutenberg-era shackles, but nobody knows what that is or what to call it.
Sigil's Spiritual Successor
At this point Sigil is no longer being actively developed. Moving development to Github has netted a few contributions but they were one offs and fairly minor. With Sigil development being stalled, Kovid (of calibre) starting making the tweak epub functionality in calibre into a full editor. calibre's editor at this point is stable and has many of the features, though not all (yet), that are present in Sigil. For people using Sigil, keep using it as long as it works for you.
Books 2.0: The Future of Books and Publishing
The Future of Publishing
