Industries: Publishing

Jan
18

The Rise of the Digital Book

Trey Radcliff has an excellent piece over at GigaOm discussing why e-books will be bigger than expected. I agree with his analysis. I also agree with the statistics outlined in this article, Apple to Give Lesson on Textbooks: By 2020 digital textbooks and learning content will represent more than 50% of the overall textbook market. [...]

Oct
26

The Endless Book and the Future of Publishing

“Students don’t buy a copy of the book—they buy lifetime access. The plan is for the textbook to serve not only as a reference for the class but as a pointer to further knowledge. Instead of publishing revised editions, Savkar’s team will keep the book up to date.” — A New Chapter for E-Books Imagine [...]

Sep
13

Extra, Extra, Read All About It: Change is the Only Constant

“There is nothing permanent except change.” –Hereclitus The pace of change is only accelerating yet, surprisingly, we don’t often see it–even when it is staring us in the face. To wit, yesterday, WellPoint announced it was going to “hire” Watson (IBM’s supercomputer) to help its doctors make better and faster medical diagnosis. One page later [...]

Jul
22

Don’t Close Your Mind: Alway Question Your Assumptions

“We’re going to have to make a lot of different assumptions,” says the head of one large publishing in this article discussing the imminent demise of Border’s — one of the world’s large bookstores. The individual is, of course, correct but the real question is why he (or she) didn’t begin questioning his assumptions years [...]