Simon Fraser University | Summer Publishing Workshops 2009 | Digital Publishing: Connecting Publishers to New Media Consumers - http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/pubwork...
Formats. Futures. Channels. While most publishers are beginning the process of digitizing their back lists, digital technology has gained a toe hold in helping publishers market their front lists as well. No longer are titles digitized and pushed through select channels to have the process stop there. Content can be moved, indexed and combined with other publishers or books.
- Nick Bouton
woohoo, after 2 weeks in the shop I'll finally get my baby... err, car back tomorrow. yay!
Very interesting speech from Richard Nash on the future of publishing and the need for publishers and readers to be more connected. [video]
- Nick Bouton
The Fast Interview: Harlequin's Brent Lewis on how romance novels are being read -- and written -- on cell phones and why size really doesn't matter.
- Nick Bouton
@asheyna @thezonedotfm he's literally right around the corner from my apartment. I see him regularly while walking my dog, too funny.
As designers working to improve the quality of life in other countries, the firm IDEO has spent more than 10 years creating a methodology focused on designing for the user. And now, IDEO wants to give all of that methodology away. A series of PDFs that are free to download, the Human-Centered Design Toolkit hopes to empower organizations and design firms by giving them their field-tested tools for social impact in a way that focuses more on sharing information than authorship.
- Nick Bouton
The ideal publisher in the age of e-community? The e-community itself. With his next venture, Round Table, former Soft Skull Press publisher Richard Nash began with the idea that the supply chain model of traditional publishing “has run out of steam”: supply was a 20th century problem, but the 21st century is about demand. In other words, with a twelvefold increase in the number of books since 1990 alone, “who the hell is going to read all this?”
- Nick Bouton
@identitykrysis throw in JT and andy samberg's motherlovers segment from SNL to top it off. ;)