The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
September 6th, 2010
“Can you blog with it?” “No. It’s a book.” Cute little video for a new book by Lane Smith…great example of the use of viral online media to promote…a book. “Lane Smith brilliantly captures the fears of today’s book lovers over e-readers in a children’s book — and does so with great humor.” —The…
August 31st, 2010
…if you have a university degree AND a publishing certificate, speak English and French and know XML. This is but one of the challenges of book publishing today: The technical skills required are exploding, but the economics still suck. I don’t wish to heap ridicule on this particular company: it’s happening everywhere. Publishing Assistant Canadian…
August 30th, 2010
…I’ll believe that the printed book is dead. When they stop printing a thousand dollar 20-volume dictionary, wisdom prevails. If you’re a cheapskate, you can buy the miniature version for five cents less than $400, and they’ll toss in the magnifying glass! Making the rounds of the blogosphere, Twittersphere and ignoramosphere today is the inaccurate…
July 23rd, 2010
I’ve known about the excellent Project Gutenberg for a long time now. It was founded in 1971 by Michael Hart and is the oldest digital library. I hadn’t been back to the site for several years because in my mind it was still the place where all you could download was ASCII text versions of…
July 5th, 2010
I uncover some unusual sites and blogs because I have a Google Alert for “future of publishing.” I can’t imagine I would have found it otherwise. Andrew Shaffer is the author of the forthcoming Harper Perennial Paperback Original Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, to be published January 4, 2011. (Unusual exactitude for a big…