William Lynch, who took over as CEO of Barnes & Noble in 2009, is credited with turning the store's prospects around by embracing digital. Intially hired to run Barnes & Noble's ebook sales site, Lynch has overseen the introduction of the B&N digital reader The Nook (over a million already sold) and the self-publishing arm, PubIt; built up the children's ebookstore section (including enhanced picture books) and introduced a Spanish language ebook store (there are more Spanish speakers in the US than English). The Nook and B&N ebooks are only available in the USA but, in an interview with The Bookseller, Lynch said he anticipates having a B&N digital placeholding in Europe in three years' time, "most-likely first in the UK, Germany and France".
Read the full article here.
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Monday 29 November 2010
Ebook Conference Futurebook 10 Opens Today
Futurebook is a digital blog about ebooks from the European perspective run in association with The Bookseller, the UK's top publishing trade paper.
On the The Futurebook 10 blog, Alastair Horne, Innovations Manager for Cambridge University Press's New Directions Group, reflects on how much can change in a year.
Follow Alastair's live tweets from Futurebook 10 (hashtag #fb10) at @pressfuturist .
On the The Futurebook 10 blog, Alastair Horne, Innovations Manager for Cambridge University Press's New Directions Group, reflects on how much can change in a year.
Follow Alastair's live tweets from Futurebook 10 (hashtag #fb10) at @pressfuturist .
Friday 26 November 2010
Dutch Ebook Market Ahead of Most Other European Countries
The UK's ebookmagazine.co.uk reports today on the launch of 2 new ebook readers in Holland.
With more than 1500 downloads a day, Holland has clocked up an early lead in the European ebook consumer market.
Read the full article here.
With more than 1500 downloads a day, Holland has clocked up an early lead in the European ebook consumer market.
Read the full article here.
Thursday 25 November 2010
Ebook Reader for Christmas? Which functions best - Kindle or iPad?
The UK's Daily Telegraph says there's going to be a Christmas ebook sales boom this year.
See blackbirdebooks' Kindle review and round-up of the alternatives.
See blackbirdebooks' Kindle review and round-up of the alternatives.
Friday 19 November 2010
How Publishers Put Books Into The Marketplace - Complete Re-Think Needed Of
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Realising the changing role of the publisher's sales department wasn't due to be covered at the forthcoming Digital Book World conference (Jan 24 - 26, Sheraton Hotel & Towers, New York, NY), Mike Shatzkin has put together a panel to discuss "this very important topic". Moderated by David Wilk, a veteran of trade book sales and distribution, the panelists will be Rich Freese of the National Book Network (US), Alison Lazarus of Macmillan (US) and Michael Selleck of Simon & Schuster (US).
"I just don’t believe the status quo can hold a lot longer. Selling by seasons in the digital age is nutty. Preparing printed catalogs that are out of date before the ink on them dries in the digital age is nutty. And making the entire publishing house’s marketing staff work around sales conferences and list preparation when most of its customers don’t buy that way is beyond nutty. There needs to be a complete re-think of how publishers put books into the marketplace." Mike Shatzkin
Read the full article at the Shatzkin Files
Realising the changing role of the publisher's sales department wasn't due to be covered at the forthcoming Digital Book World conference (Jan 24 - 26, Sheraton Hotel & Towers, New York, NY), Mike Shatzkin has put together a panel to discuss "this very important topic". Moderated by David Wilk, a veteran of trade book sales and distribution, the panelists will be Rich Freese of the National Book Network (US), Alison Lazarus of Macmillan (US) and Michael Selleck of Simon & Schuster (US).
"I just don’t believe the status quo can hold a lot longer. Selling by seasons in the digital age is nutty. Preparing printed catalogs that are out of date before the ink on them dries in the digital age is nutty. And making the entire publishing house’s marketing staff work around sales conferences and list preparation when most of its customers don’t buy that way is beyond nutty. There needs to be a complete re-think of how publishers put books into the marketplace." Mike Shatzkin
Read the full article at the Shatzkin Files
Thursday 18 November 2010
Short Stories Thriving on Ebooks
It's still early days here in the UK ebook world - this blog has twice as many American and Dutch readers as Brits. However, Kindles and iPads are starting to appear on the tubes and buses here and one long-neglected area in the world of literature, the short story, is showing early signs of a new boom.
New ways of telling are emerging fast. For a different kind of short story experience, see US media artist Alan Bigelow's digital story site Webyarns. In the UK, Ether Books is a stylish short story App that publishes short stories by well-established authors alongside new talent, including Breaking News, the latest mini-offering by our friend Jacqui Hazell.
The current free offer at blackbirdebooks.com, The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology, is an anthology of 25 of the best short stories published on the web in 2009 and 2010 as chosen by the editors of the contemporary literary site Chamber Four. We particularly love and recommend the hilarious The Naturalists by B J Hollars (storySouth), the graphically weird and wonderful Watchers by Scott Cheshire (AGNI) and the sharp but lyrical poignancy of For The Sake of The Children (Night Train) by UK author Sarah Salway.
New ways of telling are emerging fast. For a different kind of short story experience, see US media artist Alan Bigelow's digital story site Webyarns. In the UK, Ether Books is a stylish short story App that publishes short stories by well-established authors alongside new talent, including Breaking News, the latest mini-offering by our friend Jacqui Hazell.
The current free offer at blackbirdebooks.com, The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology, is an anthology of 25 of the best short stories published on the web in 2009 and 2010 as chosen by the editors of the contemporary literary site Chamber Four. We particularly love and recommend the hilarious The Naturalists by B J Hollars (storySouth), the graphically weird and wonderful Watchers by Scott Cheshire (AGNI) and the sharp but lyrical poignancy of For The Sake of The Children (Night Train) by UK author Sarah Salway.
US Ebook Sales Up 188% ($39.9M) in Year
"It's one thing when Amazon says ebooks outsell hardcovers, but when a publisher says the same thing for a given title, it's of real significance."
See full article from DailyFinance
See full article from DailyFinance
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