One CEO’s View of the Future of Publishing

January 4, 2011 | David Nussbaum | 6

By David Nussbaum, Chairman and CEO, F+W Media, Inc. Will ebooks cannibalize physical book sales? How will new books be “discovered” in an age of digital bookshelves? How many bricks-and-mortar bookstores will exist in five years and how much shelf …

Breaking the Translation Bottleneck

January 3, 2011 | Emily Williams | 1

Emily Williams | “Every other aspect of publishing is being opened up to new models of creation and distribution.”

Agency Abroad and the Limits of Technology

December 31, 2010 | Emily Williams | 2

Emily Williams | “Not even Google could pull off a launch in more than one country at a time.”

Electric Literature and the Digital Future

December 20, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 4

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “If your core pitch is your ‘innovative’ business model and not what you publish and for whom, your 15 minutes are almost up.”

What Can Publishers Learn From an ARG?

December 2, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 0

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”

Life at the Bleeding Edge of Collaboration

November 15, 2010 | Emily Williams | 5

By Emily Williams | “Yes, behind this share-and-share-alike doctrine is a real business model.”

Collaborative Communities: Transmedia Evolved

November 5, 2010 | Emily Williams | 13

By Emily Williams | “If you bring your audience in, you are no longer competing against them.”

Enabling a Global Marketing Strategy

October 26, 2010 | DBW | 5

By Evan Schnittman | “It is incredibly important to market a title coherently and wisely with a single brand and publish everywhere at the same time.”

Iambik: An Innovative, Indie Spin on Audiobooks

October 20, 2010 | Emily Williams | 15

By Emily Williams | “The moment is ripe to match a young, tech-savvy audience with the kind of offbeat fiction published by Iambik’s indie partners.”

Dark Horse Circumvents iTunes, Plans to Sell Direct

October 18, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 3

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “No licensing fees to Apple means we can pay our creators more while offering readers lower prices.”

If Libraries are Screwed, so are the Rest of Us

October 15, 2010 | Emily Williams | 23

By Emily Williams | “All this is happening as taxpayers are having to decide what municipal services they can live without.”

Comics Publishers Recognize Digital Opportunity

October 8, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 4

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “My job is to find audiences for this content any way I can.”

Your Old Job in Publishing Doesn’t Exist

October 5, 2010 | Don Linn | 17

By Don Linn | “Get comfortable with near-constant change, disruption and, well, discomfort. It’s here to stay.”

Digital Natives and Ebooks: Missing the Point

September 30, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 14

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “It’s not about the technology or the format, it’s about giving readers multiple options to engage.”

Bridges Of Virtue: Indie Publishers As The Golden Mean

September 21, 2010 | DBW | 19

By Paolo Chikiamco | “The Internet also allows an Independent Publisher to collaborate with the most important partner of all – the readers.”

Publishers: Control IP, Develop Transmedia Brands

September 15, 2010 | DBW | 7

By Simon Pulman | “Publishers must cease thinking of themselves as merely book – or even eBook – publishers.”

Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future

August 27, 2010 | Emily Williams | 23

By Emily Williams | “Where will ebook rights end up?”

Publishing is Dead, Long Live Publishing

August 24, 2010 | DBW | 12

By Shiv Singh | “Seth Godin believes in the power of his brand and is betting everything on it.”

It’s Not About eBooks; It’s About Amazon

July 28, 2010 | DBW | 7

By Brian O’Leary | “Amazon is busy making the entire book business a ‘direct-to-consumer’ model.”

To Succeed, Publishers Must Experiment… and Fail

July 12, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 17

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “Different types of content demand different types of interaction.”

Crossing Borders on Demand

June 30, 2010 | Emily Williams | 10

By Emily Williams | “An alternative to the established business of rights sales: direct, disintermediated access to readers in other countries.”

Radical Mediation: Agent, Evolve Thyself!

June 29, 2010 | DBW | 46

By Jason Allen Ashlock | “There is a lot of slack in publishing these days, and agents are picking up most of it.”

Agents Need to Develop Alternative Models

June 25, 2010 | DBW | 14

By Jane Friedman | “Agents need to be empowered and given room to innovate as much as the authors.”

Taming (or Not) the Textbook Market

June 21, 2010 | DBW | 8

By Mark Long | “The simple truth is that neither publishers nor bookstores can survive on the margins from selling POD books.”

BEA 2010: Chaotic, Hopeful, and Worthwhile

June 4, 2010 | DBW | 4

By Babette Ross || “More people reading more books in the manner of their choosing? Yes, please!”

Was BEA 2010 a Win for Publishing?

May 28, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 17

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “Has the industry turned a corner, now taking a more proactive role in shaping its destiny?”

Is Konrath’s SHAKEN Change You Can Believe In?

May 18, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 12

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez || “Will SHAKEN be remembered as the shot heard ’round the industry, or is it an exception to the rule?”

Closing the Gap Between Publishers and Readers

April 23, 2010 | DBW | 16

By Tim Brandhorst || “If Facebook is willing to offer some unbelievably useful data to publishers, will Amazon and Apple rethink their approach?”

Transmedia Requires New Breed of Writers, Publishers

April 19, 2010 | DBW | 16

By Alison Norrington || “For transmedia novelists (and publishers) to retain creative control will require more than a repurposing of content.”

Old London vs. New Media

April 16, 2010 | Emily Williams | 3

By Emily Williams || “In the houses and at the fairs, the future won’t stay safely at the margins for long.”

Publishers Need to Fail Better, Cheaper, Faster

April 16, 2010 | DBW | 15

By Rebecca Smart || “Those closest to the consumers are those best-equipped to come up with the ideas for future experiments.”

Discoverability: Still A Book’s Biggest Problem

April 8, 2010 | DBW | 37

By Cecilia Tan || “With an ebook, there is no physical store, no physical shelf.”