For those of you who have never been there, here are a few pictures of what goes on. The show is held at the Javits Center, pictured at the left, which is roundly condemned as an awful place. Unfortunately there is no other large convention center …
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On this evening June 5, I attended a reception by the French Cultural Attaché (at an old 5th Avenue mansion shown above) for the unveiling of a new iBook on the French Impressionists. The book is published by Hugh L. Levin owner of Artepublishing. T…
Markus Gylling, CTO, IDPF: it is the members of IDPF who will ultimately decide what happens in the future. No plans for EPUB4 at this time. Will be future maintenance releases which will start in the autumn. IDPF is working in a modular manner…
Bill McCoy: IDPF is a standards organization. There is no standard means to do content protection in EPUB and the IDPF is doing what is essentially a thought experiment on what it might look like and are now soliciting opinions on them. Bill Rosenb…
Until recently, Smashwords ‘shipped’ new book releases, new book updates and metadata updates to Smashwords retailers (Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, Baker & Taylor, etc) on a once-weekly basis. As pr…
How weird is this? When I was covering GPS equipment, which I did for GPSPassion.com for a number of years, I would always run into Caleb Mason at trade shows – as he was the prime representative of DeLorme, a major GPS company. I’d heard…
Michael Tamblyn, EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising, Kobo: In June had ebooks in 69 languages. English still the biggest with French German, Japanese Korean large also. Brings challenges for search indexing and category browsing. Been surprised…
It is most important that discovery continues as it happened in the past. Some stuff is better bought in person because of the touch factor. That’s why Jobs started the Apple Stores even though he faced a lot of opposition from peoople who th…
Otis Chandler, CEO, Goodreads: a way to discover books online. 9 million users and found that the data they collected is a major business all by itself. 315 million books shelved the site and growing at 17 million a month. Gives huge insight into r…
From the press release. This really has a lot of implications for both publishing and marketing and if you are going to BEA I suggest you check them out. (Blockquotes omitted) Slicebooks allows publishers to slice and remix existing books and journ…
