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Managing Joy
This week at the ECPA Executive Leadership Summit, Kelly Gallagher of Bowker reported that over a million ISBNs were produced in the last year. I remember when the entire content of Books in Print was...
View ArticleLeapfrogging
It’s going to happen slowly, and then it’s going to happen very quickly. It has already started – the rate at which independent bookstores have shuttered over the years is not publicized, but we know...
View ArticleQ&A with Ami Greko, GetGlue
LJND: What, exactly, is GetGlue supposed to do? (yes, the corporate speak, but let’s have it in English too?) AG: Plain and simple, we’re there to help users figure out what to read, watch, listen to,...
View ArticleThe Thing-ness of Things
On Twitter, I follow a gentleman named Mike Cane, who blogs in several places but most lately blew my mind today. Over this past weekend, my youngest daughter (who is known as Scamp on Twitter) had to...
View ArticleThe European Market for eBooks
Two weeks ago I was fortunate to be asked to speak at the Associazione Italiana Editori’s EdiTech conference in Milan. I gave my usual StartwithXML spiel (“ROI” is the same in English and Italian), but...
View ArticleMove Along Folks, Nothing To See Here
The announcement on Tuesday that “Barnes & Noble Is Putting Itself Up For Sale” pretty much set Twitter on fire last night. Where had this even come from? We thought Borders was the one in trouble!...
View ArticleHot as a…Firebrand?
Well, we’re back after something of a summer hiatus, and of course there’s news to report. Weirdly, I’m reporting on myself. (It just feels…odd….) After a whirlwind courtship that lasted all of about 5...
View ArticleBlio, We Hardly Knew Ye….
Launched yesterday, after nine months of hype, the Blio reader fell so short of so many expectations (expectations that have become basic market requirements for digital reading), it was deemed by many...
View ArticleObject Lessons from 978 (Bookland)
It’s been almost exactly seven months since I started working at Firebrand, and sort of put blogging and newslettering on hiatus. But I think (insert a million caveats here) that I’m now feeling...
View ArticleDoing the Work
Most publishers are now releasing books in 5 formats: the traditional hardcover and paperback, as well as Kindle, ePub and PDF. That’s at a minimum – and does not include audio, or enhanced ebooks with...
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