"In the space of one generation, [new] print books will be as rare as vinyl LPs. You'll still be able to find them in artsy hipster stores, but that's about it." - Jason Merkoski, author of Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading. Merkoski's opinion, which is not just melodramatic, but probably also wrong, nevertheless speaks to the future of the place where we buy our books. Many bookshops have gone the way of pharmacies, selling in categories far distant from their core products.
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Ellen Harvey is a freelance writer and editor who covers the latest technologies and strategies reshaping the publishing landscape. She previously served as the Senior Editor at Publishing Executive and Book Business.
In our ongoing quest to bring you the very best strategic and practical information for growing your business, we've compiled the most future-focused articles published by Book Business in 2013. Building on the popularity of our Future Think brand, we chose stories that reflect the most cogent trends affecting book publishers and which provide actionable advice for our readers.
This tablet and mobile optimized digital edition features:
- The Social Publisher
- Q&A with Pearson's Paul Belfanti
- Education Publishing's Adaptive Future
- Bill Kasdorf on Getting the Most Out of EPUB 3
- How Analytics Can Make You a Smarter Publisher
- Special Report: Identity Publishing
- An Original Essay by Jason Merkoski on Post-Book Authoring
In our ongoing quest to bring you the very best strategic and practical information for growing your business, we've compiled the most future-focused articles published by Book Business in 2013. Building on the popularity of our Future Think brand, we chose stories that reflect the most cogent trends affecting book publishers and which provide actionable advice for our readers.
A book is a book is a book—is it not? Not in the hall at the former Church of Christ, Scientist, now turned into the magnificent home of the Internet Archive on Funston Avenue at the edge of the Presidio in San Francisco. The Archive, established in 1996 with the goal of offering permanent access to records that exist in digital format, is the venue for the annual Books in Browsers conference, which took place on October 24th and 25th. This reporter attended this year for the first time, and had her mind blown.
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Today app analytics company App Annie announced its first foray into the ebook sphere with App Annie for Ebooks.
Another excellent Publishing Business Conference and Expo took place last week. Having three keynote speakers provided a very interesting cross-section of information and opinion. Amazon was the focus for the first two.
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