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Print Primacy Vs. Digital Diversity?
No matter what the trend in ebook sales, digital publishing continues to evolve. New resources have allowed for the development of products that complement and expand the publisher’s mission. Editors...
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Is Amazon the Lion That Will Eat You?
Recently, I’ve been talking to people in the book industry about a new program my company is launching that allows individuals and organizations to retail ebooks and audiobooks like the big three do:...
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The All-in-One Subscription Model
Self-publishing is easier than it has ever been, but in the current marketplace earning money for the books you’ve written now comes with a whole new set of challenges. Most authors and publishers are...
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A Brief History of Sales Channels
One definition I‘ve seen and like of a “sales channel” is “a method of distribution used by a business to sell its product.” The digital age we are currently in has certainly spawned a multitude of new...
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Why Publishers Must Use Direct Sales
If you were writing a business plan to set up a new consumer goods business, which of the following two strategies makes most sense? Strategy 1: Identify a market which, while mature, has publicly...
View ArticleThe Internet of Bookish Things
The Internet of Things, or IoT for short, is one of those buzzwords that is making the rounds in Silicon Valley. Earlier this month, many of the electronic gadgets on display at the Consumer...
View ArticleReading Fast and Slow – Observing Book Readers in Their Natural Habitat
In last week’s post, I introduced the notion of the “Internet of Bookish Things,” and how ebooks were now nodes on the Internet that could record how books are being read. In this week’s post, I will...
View ArticleWhy Semantics? How Ebook Markup Is a Sign of a Publisher’s Health
The theme this month here on Digital Book World is data and analytics. In my last post, I talked about how much data is hidden beneath the surface of books—like diamonds in a Minecraft world. Today, I...
View ArticleWho Has the Balance of Power over Data?
Who has access to the data that can best predict how readers will spend their money? Who has data on how people read books—how far they get, how many they buy, how often they buy, whether their...
View ArticleDiamonds of Data: Digging Beneath the Surface of Your Content
The theme this month here on Digital Book World is data and analytics. We are all hyper-aware of the data that is outside our books (metadata). Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy made that point...
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