Should Publishers See Themselves as Service Providers?
Today’s publishers have it pretty rough compared to previous generations: they’ve seen the sequential rise of the Internet and ebook software upend their traditional business models, and in many cases...
View ArticleHere’s a Consumer Feature and Marketing Opportunity for E-Readers
We take it for granted that when we open our favorite ebook app it automatically jumps right to the last book we were reading. And while that’s handy, I’d like to see at least one other option when I...
View ArticleWill an Open Web Liberate Reading Data?
At last week’s BEA, it was announced that the IDPF, the standards body for ebooks and responsible for the current EPUB specification, is considering merging with the W3C, the standards body for the web...
View ArticleWill an Open Web Liberate Reading Data?
At last week’s BEA, it was announced that the IDPF, the standards body for ebooks and responsible for the current EPUB specification, is considering merging with the W3C, the standards body for the web...
View ArticleHow Self-Published Authors Work with Editors
This is part one of a six-part series. As a self-published author, it’s your responsibility to make sure your book is as high-quality as it can be, and an editor is an indispensable resource who can...
View ArticleBurgeoning mobile data usage shows more media use, fewer e-books
A report from CTIA shows that the wireless data usage of American consumers tripled from 2013 to 2015. 3.2 trillion total megabytes in 2013; 4.1 trillion in 2014, 9.7 trillion in 2015. That’s more than...
View Article5 Strategies to Improve Your Ebook Sales
Ebook sales have been under pressure for various reasons over the past year or so, in particular the digital footprint of the Big Five publishers. However, this is still an industry that is finding its...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Reader Analytics?
There are authors and publishers who fear reader analytics. This has been a fact since my first presentation on “Project Crowberry” in spring 2014, since followed by Project Honeyberry, Project...
View ArticleSo Who’s Afraid of Reader Analytics?
Data has been a feature of book publishing for some time now. About 15 years ago, data became even more prominently used, as publishers could see sales data from competitors through then-new services...
View ArticleWhere Innovative Publishers Need to Focus
There are a number of key attributes successful publishers will be known for in the future, and these core capabilities will be very different from the ones that have led to the modern empires of the...
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