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Looking at the iPad from an ebook reader’s perspective

April 12, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 39 Comments

Here’s a quick review of the iPad. I’ve had it for a few days now and, based on what I know so far, it isn’t going to be a very important part of my life. It has great capabilities, but it has real limitations. The capsule summary is “not as good for straight text ereading […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Publishing Tagged With: Elements, iBook, iPad, Kassia Kroszer, Kindle, Kobo, Netflix, Vook

Tech companies need to look like they understand publishing, which they don’t always do

March 17, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 8 Comments

I showed up Tuesday morning at the gorgeous Cipriani restaurant and ballroom on 42nd Street for The Future of Publishing Summit, not knowing what to expect. I had been invited to attend this in an email last month which promised an interesting program (lots of big tech companies plus a book publishing “track” led by the […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing Tagged With: Adobe, Carolyn Pittis, Cipriani, Colin Crawford, Creative Strategies, David Young, Digital Book World, Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, Google, HarperCollins, HP, IDG Communications, Lorraine Shanley, Maja Thomas, MarkLogic, Marvell, Microsoft, Notion Ink, OUP, Peter Balis, Publishing Business Conference and Expo, Publishing Technologies, Qualcomm, Scrollmotion, Skiff, Sony, SXSW, Tim Bajarin, Tom Turvey, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services, Vook, Zinio

Do enhanced ebooks create a comeback trail for packagers?

February 20, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 19 Comments

This post contains a reference to our next conference effort: this year’s Making Information Pay for the Book Industry Study Group. There is a survey associated with this conference about how processes and job descriptions are changing that we really hope everybody employed in a publishing house — particularly those people involved in editorial, production, marketing, […]

Filed Under: Authors, eBooks, Enhanced ebook university, General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Publishing, Publishing History Tagged With: Baker & Taylor, BISG, Blio, Brad Inman, Dorling Kindersley, EEBU, Enhanced Editions, Making Information Pay, Mark Twain, Octopus, Paul Hamlyn, Peter Collingridge, Peter Meyers, Quarto, Scrollmotion, Tools of Change, Vook

Baker & Taylor has the next big thing in ebooks. Really!

December 8, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 44 Comments

We’re about to see the Next Big Thing in ebooks next month and it’s coming from Baker & Taylor. Baker & Taylor? For the past ten years, Baker & Taylor in relation to Ingram has looked remarkably similar to Borders in relation to Barnes & Noble. Ingram and B&N are family-owned companies (although B&N has […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Blio, Borders, Consumer Electronics Show, Google, Ingram, iPhone, K-NFB, Linda Gagnon, National Foundation of the Blind, Ray Kurzweil, Scrollmotion, Vook

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