• Notable Bookish/Techy News, Links and Tweets: (you know - a roundup)

    Updated: 2010-07-30 14:54:36
    , : O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Notable Bookish Techy News , Links and Tweets : you know a roundup Kat Meyer July 30, 2010 Permalink Comments 0 Listen Such a week . The prevailing theme this week was low , low prices Yes , in a flurry of well-placed PR , Amazon took the e-reader pricing wars to new lows . Read all about it here Also newsy , but receiving considerably less fanfare or , at least far fewer national talk show appearances SkyRiver filed an anti-trust suit against Online Computer Library Center Some of my favorite blog posts this : week Delusions , Illusions , and the True Costs of Digital Publishing by Kent Anderson at the Scholarly Kitchen Why I recommend it : It's about time we started acknowledging that digital

  • Gill & Macillan Launches Updated Website

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:19:14
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  • Penguin boss has no problem with ebooks

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:11:32
    John Makinson says that if people want to read using new technology, that's what publishers must give them

  • Stieg Larsson becomes first author to sell 1m ebooks on Amazon

    Updated: 2010-07-29 20:42:22
    Author of Millennium trilogy beats James Patterson in race to join online retailer's new 'Kindle Million Club'

  • Irish Top Ten Week Ending 24/07/2010

    Updated: 2010-07-29 20:32:21
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement iPad Launches In Ireland How To Buy Books On The iPad in Ireland Or Get Them Free By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes Yesterday Robert Maguire wrote a long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps . These . Read more iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes This morning iBooks is the number one free iPad App in Ireland . Amazon’s Kindle for iPad app , at . Read more To E Or Not To E : A Beginner’s Guide To iPad Ereading Apps By Robert Maguire Reading time : 6 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that , for the first time ever on Amazon.com , ebooks

  • Metadata, Not E-Books, Can Save Publishing...

    Updated: 2010-07-29 15:37:33
    , , . O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Metadata , Not E-Books , Can Save Publishing . Nick Ruffilo July 29, 2010 Permalink Comments 9 Listen Metadata is king . I will repeat this as it is important . Metadata is king I need not go through the barrage of articles and statistics that show that publishing is in a minor state of panic . Revenues are down and until recently past 1-2 years many publishers were unsure how they should play with e-books many are still not completely settled in their e-strategy The reason that e-books will not save publishing is that all they are is another format . E-books will not revolutionize reading , nor will they change the content . I've seen some social reading projects copia but they are in beta

  • AdClix. Driving New Revenue Through Display Ads

    Updated: 2010-07-28 17:29:58
    Coming to a directory near you!!! We are preparing to launch a fresh new way to create revenue opportunities for both you and your advertisers. Keep reading to learn more about a fantastic opportunity for directory publishers that want to drive new revenue through their traditional print ads. If you’re not interested in generating more revenue then

  • Book Publicity and Marketing: How Soon was Yesterday?

    Updated: 2010-07-28 14:00:03
    : O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Book Publicity and Marketing : How Soon was Yesterday Kevin Smokler July 28, 2010 Permalink Comments 14 Listen I spoke to a touring author last week who repeated this phrase about 9 times over a one hour coffee date . nbsp Everything's changed . She wasn't talking about digital pricing , vanishing review coverage , closing independent bookstores or KindlePadNookKobos KPNK's although I'm sure they had crossed her mind plenty . No , this afternoon she was a single-minded author chief salesperson with a book to promote and a long road ahead staring immovably back at her . nbsp The everything therefore pressed up against her nose like store window . Around the publication of her last novel . There was

  • Ruth Dudley Edwards Wins CWA Dagger Award

    Updated: 2010-07-27 09:43:16
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  • Dublin Named UNESCO City Of Literature

    Updated: 2010-07-26 15:01:08
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement iPad Launches In Ireland How To Buy Books On The iPad in Ireland Or Get Them Free By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes Yesterday Robert Maguire wrote a long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps . These . Read more iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes This morning iBooks is the number one free iPad App in Ireland . Amazon’s Kindle for iPad app , at . Read more To E Or Not To E : A Beginner’s Guide To iPad Ereading Apps By Robert Maguire Reading time : 6 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that , for the first time ever on Amazon.com , ebooks

  • Website owners republishing old newspaper articles facing lawsuits

    Updated: 2010-07-25 20:17:43
    One of the topics I have followed closely since the beginning of Web Publishing blog is for profit copyright enforcement. Lawyers have been using copyright law enforcement for profit for years whether it was Getty Images which has been going after web site owners for years, or Perfect 10 which purchased licenses from photographers for, [...]

  • How To Buy Books On The iPad in Ireland (Or Get Them Free)

    Updated: 2010-07-24 16:37:48
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement iPad Launches In Ireland How To Buy Books On The iPad in Ireland Or Get Them Free By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes Yesterday Robert Maguire wrote a long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps . These . Read more iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes This morning iBooks is the number one free iPad App in Ireland . Amazon’s Kindle for iPad app , at . Read more To E Or Not To E : A Beginner’s Guide To iPad Ereading Apps By Robert Maguire Reading time : 6 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that , for the first time ever on Amazon.com , ebooks

  • iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland

    Updated: 2010-07-24 14:27:44
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement iPad Launches In Ireland How To Buy Books On The iPad in Ireland Or Get Them Free By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes Yesterday Robert Maguire wrote a long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps . These . Read more iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes This morning iBooks is the number one free iPad App in Ireland . Amazon’s Kindle for iPad app , at . Read more To E Or Not To E : A Beginner’s Guide To iPad Ereading Apps By Robert Maguire Reading time : 6 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that , for the first time ever on Amazon.com , ebooks

  • [News] Four Short Links (and One Semi-Short Ramble)

    Updated: 2010-07-23 20:45:40
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Four Short Links and One Semi-Short Ramble Kat Meyer July 23, 2010 Permalink Comments 0 Listen This is a round-up of sorts . Not all of these links have been bandied about in the book-o-sphere , and not all of them are even from this week , but they're all interesting to me . And , I hope , of interest to other folks with a penchant for publishing and tech and . related First up a nice take from Kassia Krozser on news that is only a few days old , and is nowhere near being played out . The Wylie Affair . Yes , it appears an agent has gone and done a crazy out-there thing and licensed some digital rights . Okay , so the rights were exclusive to Amazon Kindle , and the print publisher thereof seems to

  • Northern Ireland Author Secures Unique E-Book Publishing Contract

    Updated: 2010-07-23 01:26:38
    Log In Irish Publishing News News Features About Irish Publishing News Books Authors Author Events Publishing Published This Month Rights Daily Links Comment Features Announcement iPad Launches In Ireland How To Buy Books On The iPad in Ireland Or Get Them Free By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes Yesterday Robert Maguire wrote a long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps . These . Read more iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland By Editor Reading time : 1 2 minutes This morning iBooks is the number one free iPad App in Ireland . Amazon’s Kindle for iPad app , at . Read more To E Or Not To E : A Beginner’s Guide To iPad Ereading Apps By Robert Maguire Reading time : 6 9 minutes This week Amazon announced that , for the first time ever on Amazon.com , ebooks

  • Online Bank Account Theft

    Updated: 2010-07-15 00:18:03
    How would you feel if you woke up tomorrow and $75,000 or more was missing from your business bank account? “When consumers lose money due to cyber fraud, retail banks are required by law to refund the money — provided the victim doesn’t wait too long in reporting the unauthorized charges. Commercial banks, however, are [...]

  • After 9 Quarters Magazines Post Gains

    Updated: 2010-07-14 19:24:12
    How long?  How long have magazines been taking a beating.  How long have they seemed in dire straights?  How long have we seen major publishers shedding titles like my beagle sheds hair?  According to MPA, it’s been about nine quarters.  I know, it feels longer right?   But wait, there’s some promising page counts and

  • iPad Catalogs: Much Potential for Retailers

    Updated: 2010-07-14 19:10:34
    Digital Catalogs for the iPad were the topic of discussion in an article over on Advertising Age’s website Monday. With Dirxion’s iPad Enterprise product mere weeks away from production, journalist Beth Snyder Bulik, called us for an opinion on how retail brands should prepare for their maiden voyage on this new digital publishing platform. Without reiterating

  • See(k)ing Opportunities

    Updated: 2010-07-14 07:17:40
    O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News See(k ing Opportunities Mark Nelson July 14, 2010 Permalink Comments 1 Listen As someone in the retail channel for physical books , it might be hard to believe that book retailers have much to offer publishers in the way of advice about digital . Indeed , many have already written the physical channel for books off as a quaint piece of history about to go the way of record stores and newspapers . That does not have to be the case . Most of us would not give up our light bulbs for candles , but candles do still have a place . So too , retailers and in my case , collegiate retailers i.e . college bookstores have great opportunities to be the purveyors of light bulbs and candles , digital and print .

  • Indie ebooktailers and the Agency Model: Where Are They Now?

    Updated: 2010-07-13 06:11:14
    : O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Indie ebooktailers and the Agency Model : Where Are They Now Kat Meyer July 13, 2010 Permalink Comments 2 Listen Even though the big five has been a small part of our bottom line , we do want them back and I don't want to do anything at this point to jeopardize our relationship with any of them . I definitely don't want to see a market where only Amazon , Apple , and B N are selling those titles . anonymous indie ebook retailer It's ironic that the publishers who were going to level the playing field amongst retailers pretty much now only have their titles available on B N and Amazon . anonymous indie ebook retailer In the fast-paced news cycle generated around publishing and technology , the

  • Now Live!

    Updated: 2010-07-09 22:57:48
    English Yellow Pages An indispensable annual telephone directory that lists organizations, businesses, services and professionals that are both located in Italy and speak English. It’s a fabulous resource that makes visiting or living in a foreign country a lot easier! } digital directory highlight: maximum SEO by converting one print directory into three city-specific directories tED Magazine A monthly textbook

  • Ricoh Innovation's Visual Search Technology: A Potential Revolution for Booky Books

    Updated: 2010-07-07 14:15:38
    : O'Reilly Media Home About Directory Blog Community Archives Webcasts Resources Reading News Ricoh Innovation's Visual Search Technology : A Potential Revolution for Booky Books Kat Meyer July 7, 2010 Permalink Comments 0 Listen For those with a fondness for paper book reading , no ebook or book app or shiny , portable reading device can compare to the real thing . Some will cite their appreciation for quality paper stock and gorgeous typesetting . Others may tell you they love the smell or feel of books . And quite a few printed paper book diehards will say that there is nothing like a bound book for a truly engaging reading experience . For many , the buttons and screens and links are anything but enhancements . nbsp I buy all these pro-booky book arguments and more , but I love the

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