The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
October 21st, 2011
Compare these two statements about two different new-and-improved e-book specifications: “KF8 has over 150 new formatting capabilities including support for HTML5 and CSS3.” “HTML5 is the base language of EPUB3… The new baseline for style sheets is CSS2.1 with some CSS3 features added.” They sure sound similar. The first, published yesterday, describes Amazon’s just announced Kindle Format 8…
May 23rd, 2011
I’m in New York at the sold out IDPF 2011 Digital Book conference run by the International Digital Publishing Forum. What a day it has been! The big news of course is the “release” ((It’s actually the “Proposed Specification for final member and public review” — it’s been approved by the 100-member working committee, but…
December 12th, 2010
There are a huge number of websites out there that can benefit the student of the future of publishing. This listing is not intended as a comprehensive compendium of those sites: you’ll find many valuable publications, associations and websites linked throughout the blog entries and essays on thefutureofpublishing.com. I’m part of a group of publishing…
December 12th, 2010
Book Publishing Startups in the US, 2022, Thad McIlroy, San Francisco, Publishers Weekly, 2022 We Need to Talk About the Backlist, The Future of Publishing Blog, 2021. COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021, with Cliff Guren and Steve Sieck. The Future of Publishing, 2021. An Authoritative Look at Book Publishing Startups in…
December 12th, 2010
I list my books and reports on a separate page. Most of my writing appears on this site. These are articles published elsewhere, including Publishers Weekly and Publishing Research Quarterly. Book Publishing Startups in the U.S. 2022, Publishers Weekly, November 18, 2022. Frankfurt Spotlight: How Book Publishing Startups Have Fared, Publishers Weekly, October 17, 2022. Ingram Backs…