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Do iPad or do I Kindle?

Tom Evans | 2:58 pm 29 Jan 10 Comments 1

Tom Evans is an author, author mentor, writer’s unblocker and e-publishing wizard. Follow his memes and musings on Twitter @thebookwright
The debate is not about which device is better than the others. It’s about authors and publishers embracing a whole new world of opportunity.

Much has been written over the last 48 hours or so about Apple’s [...]

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Tools of Change at Frankfurt Book Fair

Jon Reed | 7:25 pm 14 Oct 09 Comments 0

For those of us not at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, it’s been easier than ever to keep up with the presentations, the deals, the gossip and the bar-hopping (er, I mean stand-hopping) with the #fbf09 hashtag.
The various blogs and Twitter accounts covering the Book Fair include @thebookseller, the ever irreverent and entertaining @missdaisyfrost, [...]

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Kindle 2 and the publishing revolution

Jon Reed | 11:06 pm 24 Feb 09 Comments 4

Everyone’s talking about Kindle 2. To those outside the industry this must sound as opaque and mysterious a revolution as Vatican 2. [My only reference for that isĀ  The Thornbirds, which you can now buy as a Kindle edition].
The Kindle 2 is the next generation of Amazon’s wireless e-book reading device, and it started shipping [...]

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Tools of Change 2009

Jon Reed | 8:51 pm 20 Feb 09 Comments 0

Were you at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York last week? No? Me either. If, like me, you missed out on the annual digital publishing love-in, here is your crib sheet:

download the slides from your favourite presentations
watch Chris Brogan’s presentation on Blogging and Social Media.

Enjoy!

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the winter of disintermediated content

Jon Reed | 5:51 pm 02 Feb 09 Comments 2

Welcome back, dear reader, and a belated Happy New Year! Are you optimistic about this year? The news is so full of economic doom and gloom these days, I’d understand if you were feeling a bit mis. January was a long, dark month. Then today saw the start of the heaviest snowfall in the UK [...]

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the end of book publishing

Jon Reed | 9:21 pm 22 Sep 08 Comments 3

Before you switch off from another doomsaying prophesy, this is actually quite an interesting article from New York Magazine:
The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing might have to look [...]

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who needs publishers?

Jon Reed | 9:43 pm 02 Jun 08 Comments 3

A quick heads-up for anyone who’s not yet seen Sara Lloyd’s excellent piece for US-based library journal, Library Trends, called A Book Publisher’s Manifesto for the 21st Century, on how traditional publishers need to adapt to the new media economy – something we’re always banging on about on this blog. The whole article is now [...]

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the future for publishers

Jon Reed | 6:36 pm 28 Mar 08 Comments 4

More on business models and the future of publishing this week – this time from Paul Watson of The Lazarus Corporation. I love the strapline on his blog: “all that you think you know is wrong”. Always a good mantra for thinking the unthinkable, that one. Anyway, here’s his eloquent take on the failure of [...]

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a community of readers

Jon Reed | 6:20 pm 27 Feb 08 Comments 2

I wasn’t fortunate enough to get to the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York this year. But I have been looking at their new blog, a couple of posts from Sara Lloyd over at the digitalist, and Kassia Krozser’s take on it all over at Booksquare – all of which I’d [...]

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eBooks: end of the page-turner?

Jon Reed | 4:45 pm 24 Oct 07 Comments 1

Interesting article in today’s Independent about eBooks – including plenty of quotes from Jeff ‘Print is Dead‘ Gomez:
In just a few short years, MP3 downloads and the iPod changed the face of the music industry. CDs are going the way of the dodo, and high-street music stores fear for their future. Now there’s a [...]

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