October 8th, 2011
Sloppy eBook Conversions in the Spotlight
Ebooks have always had formatting problems. They usually look like they were assembled by a six year old using an Etch A Sketch.
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October 4th, 2011
Don’t Compare Specs, Compare Content
Thinking of the Amazon.com Kindle Fire as an iPad killer doesn’t illuminate the issue of how tablets and e-readers are impacting the future of publishing. Fire is aimed first at Barnes & Noble and its Nooks, and to a much lesser extent, at every other hardware company that thinks it might succeed in the tablet space….
August 8th, 2011
The Laws of the Future of Publishing: 1
I’ve tried to distill my 30 years of publishing technology into some guidelines, modestly named The Laws of the Future of Publishing. I’ve got 31 of them so far. People have asked that I fill in some detail beyond the terse statements. That’s going to keep me busy for awhile. Here’s the first.
July 31st, 2011
Airbnb and the Comfort of Strangers
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of…
July 29th, 2011
Hulu and the Future of Publishing
The difficulties facing online TV website Hulu are a mirror to the challenges facing all publishers as we move toward the future. Brian Stelter held up that mirror in an excellent article in last weekend’s New York Times. It’s the best piece I’ve read this year examining the future of publishing. Anyone familiar with this site…