eBooks Nudge Print Books Closer to Shelf Edge. Digital Book Publishing Wave Gathering Momentum!
Friday, February 13th, 2009Thank goodness I was given a Kindle for Christmas two years ago. I say that because the three-day O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC2009) in NYC this week was all about digital publishing and I could smugly raise my hand when a keynote speaker polled the audience about eReaders. Even though the back of the Amazon Kindle keeps falling off, the battery dies too quickly and I have to carry around a bent paperclip to have handy for the reset button, there were a lot of Kindle devotees in the audience, matched, by the way, by the number of attendees who owned a Sony Digital Book. Doesn’t this tell you something?
It’s All About Me! Yet Again!
This year I was doubly interested in the topic of digital publishing because of the enormous amount of time, energy, and money I spent developing a commercial online publishing presence in 2008 for Back2Press Books and publishing my first print and soon-to-be eBook, The Cure for Jet Lag. As excruciatingly boring, painful or vague as most of the titles of the individual seminars were:
- Copyright in Today’s Digital Age
- XML in Practice: Formats, Tools, and Techniques
- What’s Your Mobile Strategy?
- Optimizing Distribution + Maximizing Control + Channel Transformation = The Perfect Trifecta for Publishers
- CEO Roundtable: The Changing Role of Publishers
- Making an Impact with Travel Content
- Smart Women Read e-Books
- Extending the Publishing Ecosystem, Sharing Greater Wealth
- Authoring Challenges in a Multiplatform World
I was breathless with excitement to cram in as many seminars as I could.
