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Arcadia's vision for a new way of reading
In September Faber will publish Iain Pears’ Arcadia , a book that it first announced in 2012. The story behind the publication will be as...Image:
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'Growing pains': Scribd's romance 'purge'
Mark Coker: Smashwords' Scribd sales may 'drop at least 50 percent' Coming in the context of Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select's controversial new per-page...Image:
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Your five-minute manifesto for FutureBook
One of the best talks delivered at a FutureBook conference came right at its beginning in 2010. The author Nick Harkaway spoke about the possibilities...Image:
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Nathan Hull: A misinformed maelstrom
"Digital reading as a genuine competitor to TV, film, gaming and music" will sound good to just about anyone in publishing. And Mofibo chief business...Image:
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Canelo makes its move: A launch-day Q&A
A tweet from @Canelo_Co this morning (13th July): "So much interest in the website today we're having to upgrade the server!" It's the Canelic Arrival...Image:
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Let the right edition in
The release of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman provides another moment to reflect on the developing e-book market and how it mixes with the...Image:
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The smart book for a new market
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the audio download market was rising to the challenge of a flagging e-book market , with...Image:
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Enhanced ebooks: 'Is That All There Is?'
"Perhaps we are already discovering that this new world is a touch more fertile" for enhanced ebooks than we thought. Or is this wishful thinking...Image:
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Simon Collinson: Surveying small publishing's data on ebooks
A timely inquiry today, something for small publishers to consider. As my colleague Philip Jones wrote here at The FutureBook last week, the ebook market...Image:
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Enhanced ebooks and steel filing cabinets: A #FutureChat recap
Funny how #FutureChat can change your mind. Camille LaGuire, whose beret-ed avatar is familiar to many of us in our weekly discussion from The Bookseller...Image:
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When the page is broken: Who writes the books?
'New Kinds of Authors, New Kinds of Books': Four of them While it's hardly the norm to introduce a book to you at its end,...Image:
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Is 'out of print' running out of time?
Never being 'out of print' is not good news You can't self-publish. Because you can't get your rights back. And your book is nowhere to...Image:
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Do you fear reader analytics?
Just a day before we got the news this week that Authonomy was to be closed by HarperCollins UK , London-based entrepreneur Andrew Rhomberg had...Image:
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When the agent is the author: Andrew Lownie
'A lot of new material'"Being an author myself again has made me a better agent I believe," Andrew Lownie tells me. Not nearly the...Image:
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Those magnificent manifestos
Rethinking e-books, bridging the gap between trade and non-trade publishing, using digital to improve the publishing process, and putting authors in control, are the main...Image:
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A manifesto for a digital book platform
"The future of the book business will certainly be unveiled on a digital platform." Even as some believe that ebooks' progress has been staggered by...Image:
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A manifesto for all writers
"There are too many adjectives in publishing already," writes Carla Douglas . An editor based in Kingston, Ontario, Douglas is a frequent participant in our...Image:
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Book Tech Showcase: where book and tech come together
A Scottish startup using binaural recording, 3D audio software and immersive sound design to redefine the audiobook. A team of seasoned digital entrepreneurs from Cologne...Image:
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Book Tech Showcase: oolipo
"The future of the book is…the book,” sighs Ryan David Mullins, speaking from oolipo HQ in Cologne. “Leave the book alone. There’s nothing wrong with...Image:
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BookTech Showcase: Shulph
Publishers "need to start representing themselves to the world in a way that protects their heritage yet speaks a modern visual language." So says Shulph...Image:
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