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Ending the TOC Conference, But Still Pushing Tools of Change for Publishing
by Tim O'Reilly
2 May 2013 at 1:17pm
O’Reilly has been publishing books since 1986, but I’ve often said that we consider ourselves more of a technology transfer company than a typical publisher. Twenty years after our first book, Unix in a Nutshell, we realized that the insights …
Cultural capital goes commercial
by Julia Errens
2 May 2013 at 10:21am
It wasn’t one of my proudest moments when, a week before Christmas last year, I was hunched over my smartphone towards the back of the famous Hamley’s Toy Store on London’s Regent Street, composure tethered to an elusive bar of …
Why ebooks & why green e-publishing?
by Deborah Emin
2 May 2013 at 7:37am
Perhaps you’ve also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn’t read it. If it did, publishing could become the standard bearer for global reduction of carbon footprints. This business challenge …
Earned Attention: More than a stack of paper
by Joe Wikert
1 May 2013 at 5:43am
As an industry I think we’re getting weary of all the various “rich content” experiments and products floating around these days. I have to admit that most make me want to yawn and move on to the next item in …
Numbers never lie?unless you?re talking social media
by Rob Eagar
30 Apr 2013 at 9:16am
Back in college, I took a class on statistics and never forgot the first lesson my professor taught us, which was, ?Anyone can manipulate numbers to make them mean whatever they want.? I see this point magnified today by the …
LinkedIn as publisher
by Joe Wikert
29 Apr 2013 at 1:24pm
I’m drawn to LinkedIn now more than ever before. The rate of connection requests I’ve been receiving there has also been accelerating over the past few months. Maybe it’s due to all the uncertainty of the publishing industry but I …
German digital publishing ? the Berlin way
by Ruediger Wischenbart
29 Apr 2013 at 7:00am
My favorite number at the first TOC buchreport in Berlin on April 23rd was 20, as in 20% of the 2.4 million ebook buyers in Germany in 2012 had not bought any books in the previous twelve months, according to …
Publishing News: Our brains on screens
by Jenn Webb
26 Apr 2013 at 11:59am
Digital vs paper: ink on paper may still have the advantage In a recent edition of Scientific American, Ferris Jabr took a look at how technology is affecting the way we read and the differences between reading on screens and …
Do publishers have the right people on the bus?
by Michael Foy
25 Apr 2013 at 8:18am
I know from talking to many of my clients that most have read Jim Collins? book ?Good to Great?. I have also been inspired by his research into what makes great companies great. Many of you will recall an article …
Direct sales of ebooks in multiple languages
by Joe Wikert
24 Apr 2013 at 10:43am
O’Reilly has long been a leader in fostering community and building a direct sales channel. This week we took the next step in enhancing the customer’s direct buying experience by offering German editions for many of our ebook titles. Take …
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