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What will be the big digital issues in January 2011?

May 16, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

I have found a way to describe the difference between the Digital Book World conference we organize for F+W Media and the O’Reilly conference Tools of Change which I believe is accurate and is certainly not intended to be a pejorative description of  Tools of Change. I go to TOC and I find it very valuable, but different […]

Filed Under: Authors, Community, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: App Store, B&N, B&T, Blio, Content Reserve, Copia, Disney, F+W Media, iBooks, Ingram Digital, Ingram Publisher Services, J. A. Konrath, Jane Friedman, Kindle, LibreDigital, NBN, Nook, O'Reilly, Open Road, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Perseus, Pixiq, Poetry Speaks, Safari, Sony, Sterling, Tools of Change

O’Reilly’s Offer of Distribution Points to a Larger Change

March 4, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

One of the most significant pieces of news to come out of Tools of Change is that O’Reilly is going into the distribution business for ebooks. This is indeed, a “tool” of change. It is also a harbinger of times to come that threaten a lot of big companies: major publishers; the big distributors like Perseus, […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, Bookmasters, codeMantra, Content Reserve, Ingram, IPG, LibreDigital, Michael Cader, NBN, North Point, O'Reilly Media, Perseus, Skip Prichard, Tools of Change

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