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FREE Webcast: How Social Networks and New Media Are Changing the Ways Readers Discover New Books
Webcast: How Parents and Children Read, Learn and Buy Digitally
Webcast: Designing E-books for the New Tablet Reality, Fighting Distraction and Delivering Quality
Digital Content: Where Are Publishers Investing and What Challenges Will They Need to Overcome?
Evolving Metadata Practices: Research, ROI, and ONIX 3.0
Agile Content Development for Book Publishers: Defining an Approach
Content Profiling for Social Media: How to Improve the Digitizing and Monetization of Social Content
Book Country’s First Signed Author: ‘Never Considered Self-Publishing’
Frankfurt Now Less Important in Foreign Rights Sales for Many Books (Video)
Kobo Enters U.S. Tablet Wars, to Sell Vox at Best Buy
E-Book Library Lending Rises, Publishing Industry Grapples With Change
Barbara Galletly | As e-books have become a core part of U.S. publishers’ business, libraries, booksellers and startups have built e-book lending programs aimed at providing remote customers armed with e-readers a modern version of what they once could get only by visiting their local library. How will the future of this budding industry play out?
CEO’s Look Back at 2011 and Forward Into Publishing’s Future
Tipping Point Reached or Will E-Book Sales Spike in First Quarter?
Sitting down with Digital Book World for an exclusive video interview, Digital Book World conference co-chairman and publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin spoke about the doubling of e-readers and tablets owned by consumers and how it might affect e-book sales figures, which reportedly showed slower growth in 2011 than in previous years. Will we see a first-quarter spike after the glut of new devices flooding the market?
Discoverability in the Digital Age: Personal Recommendations and Bookstores, Survey Says
Shatzkin: Big-Six Run By Smartest, Most Innovative Publishers (Video)
How Kobo Plans to Launch in 12 New Countries a Year
E-reader and e-book seller Kobo was born international. The Toronto-based company had to expand abroad from the very beginning, as Canada isn’t a very large market, said Kobo vice president of content, sales and merchandising Michael Tamblyn at the Digital Book World conference in New York last week.