Content and Digital Asset Management

Random House's science fiction and fantasy online community Suvudu has launched a blogger community called Suvudu Universe. The site is filled with original content about science fiction and fantasy media written by the community of writers.  Writers that are published on the community can earn badges for placement and access to interact with authors. Suvudu will publish appropriate content, but the writer remains the owner of the media. Here is more about the submissions process from the site:

Peter Brantley, Director of Scholarly Communications at the not-for-profit startup Hypothes.is, is lined up to speak at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo on September 23rd. Brantley has previously worked in digital book distribution through the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive and actively supports developers and designers to create new storytelling platforms through the Books in Browsers conference. We’re excited to showcase Peter’s digital publishing expertise at the conference this year. His session, “Annotating the World’s Knowledge,” will delve into the latest applications that streamline annotation technology in academic publishing.

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ASCD, the global leader in providing programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner, and the publisher of more than 40 education books a year, is launching a short-format imprint with the debut of its first four ASCD Arias™ professional development publications.

Each short-format publication will be 48 pages in length and will answer a crucial and timely “How do I…?” question. ASCD Arias contain original, standalone content that can be read in one sitting and immediately applied to practice.

Learn effective ways to translate content into the appropriate formats, and how to determine which formats best suit your content.

One week after the demise of Google Reader, Fast Co.Labs’ Chris Dannen and John Paul Titlow interview the guys at Digg about their attempt at an RSS replacement.

Their plans for the future of Digg Reader include paid premium features, improved search, and a social network of power users. Along the way, they’re also learning a lot more about how people want to get their news:

  There were two categories of insights. 

If you're doing what many Americans do this month, you're spending at least some of your time sitting on the beach reading a book. The "beach read" is an essential element of vacation planning, and we publishers work hard to get our books in those suitcases or on those not-quite-sand-proof ereaders. I suppose the quintessential beach read is a "trashy" novel, but for many it's just a good work of fiction, a compelling non-fiction read, or perhaps a trip back to the classics. Middlemarch, anyone?

After a 20-year stint in newspaper and magazine journalism, Susan Bolotin became the editor-in-chief of Workman Publishing in 2000; she is now also the acting publisher. She began her career at Random House, and then moved to Simon & Schuster, where she was the editor-in-chief of Touchstone Books. While there, she published The Road Less Traveled, which holds the distinction of being on The New York Times best seller list longer than any other book. She eagerly awaits the day — not many months away — when Workman's What to Expect When You're Expecting takes over that special spot in bookselling history.

Apple’s e-book lawsuit tends to get the lion’s share of attention, and it is easy to forget that Google has been entangled in its own years-long suit involving the publishing industry.

A federal appeals court Monday said that a suit brought by authors trying to stop Google from electronically scanning millions of books shouldn’t have been approved as a class action, Chad Bray writes.

    The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Monday that it was “premature” to certify a class…

Book Business Editor in Chief Brian G. Howard talks with Sameer Shariff, Founder and CEO of Impelsys, creator of the iPublishCentral ebook delivery platform, on Thu., May 31, at Book Expo America's Digital Discovery Zone.

Lynn Rosen, Editorial Director of the Publishing Business Group, interviewing Len Vlahos, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, and Karina Luke, Executive Director of Book Industry Communication at the IDPF's Digital Book conference at Book Expo America