Today In Book Publishing

Remember the excitement surrounding the launch of Amazon’s Kindle eight years ago? It was a clunky device, even by 2007 standards, but it was revolutionary. One of the original Kindle’s breakthrough features was the ability to download books via cellular network. The e-Ink display and extremely long battery life also led to its popularity despite…

The circumstances surrounding every selling situation are different, but there are two parts essential to them all: substance and process. Substance is made up of objective elements such as price, terms and shipping costs. Process is the path you take from your initial meeting to the close. One of the costliest mistakes in negotiating a…

Playster, which announced in October that it would be coming to the U.S. this year, has officially launched its multimedia subscription platform for U.S. users. The service offers unlimited access to content including books, audiobooks, video games, music, movies, and TV shows. Playster is making a big push to enter the U.S. market, offering users…

Many critics declare that consumers are experiencing a “Golden Age of Television," pointing towards the slew of high-quality programming available on premium channels like HBO, streaming services such as Netflix, and even basic cable. Book publishers may be able to learn a thing or two from how these addictive programs are being made. That’s what…

Last Thursday, Book Business hosted the webinar, “Top Trends in Children’s Literature: Personalized and Interactive Books for the Holidays,” which highlighted how interactivity and personalization are reshaping the children’s book segment. Kristen McLean, director of new business development at Nielsen Book; Maia Haag, president of I See Me!; and Barb Pellow, group director at InfoTrends…

This webinar is your chance to experience all the highlights from the Digital Book Printing Conference.

Earlier this week, Simon & Schuster announced the launch of Crave, an app created by its imprint Atria Books and Paragraph, a tech company that provides solutions to “help people discover, tell, and experience great stories.” Crave is a subscription service which offers users access to serialized fiction from their favorite romance authors. Users choose…

Going mobile is more than just big pages fitting on tiny screens. Mobile requires content to be organized so that it can be quickly served up in bite-sized chunks into any of the myriad forms that users might want, because today’s consumers want their content their way, on their devices, and in their timeframes. Publishers…

Here are the most read Book Business stories from November: Self Publishing & Big Five Dominate Book Market, According to Nielsen - In this post, Joe Wikert shares the results of Nielsen’s recent study on the state of the U.S. book publishing market. The study reveals the market share of print books versus ebooks, provides…

“Zero inventory” was the buzzword at the Digital Book Printing Conference hosted in New York City this October. Throughout the event, book manufacturers and publishers posed the following question: is the zero inventory model, in which manufacturers print and distribute all titles on an on demand basis, achievable for book publishers? The question sparked a…