digital

The Coming of Age of E-Textbooks?

by Sabrina EBooks

I’m not as familiar with what’s going on with e-textbooks, but there seems to have been a lot of exciting developments recently. One thing I often hear about e-textbooks is that, despite the expectation that young people, particularly college students, would be the first to eagerly adopt all things digital, most students don’t like e-textbooks [...]

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Digital Content: Where are publishers investing and what challenges will they need to overcome?

by Sabrina Publishing
publishers investing

I’ve been really in to webinars lately. I think part of it is I’ve been finding a lot free webinars that discuss either various aspects of the publishing industry or entrepreneurship. (Although the webinars on metadata were not free, but I think it’s important to learn and understand as much about metadata as possible). Anyway, [...]

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Three Innovative Companies: WordPivot, Link.me, and Bibliocrunch

by Sabrina Future

A big part of BEA is walking around the showroom and meeting new exhibitors. This year, I got to meet the founders of two new companies, WordPivot and Link.me, as well as reconnect with a friend and NYU alum, Miral Sittar, who is the founder and CEO of Bibliocrunch. 

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Speed Dating: An Overview of 9 Innovative Digital Publishing Companies and Products

by Sabrina Future
BEA

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) held a Digital Show and Tell last week at BEA. This consisted of 15 new companies, split up in to two groups, giving five minute pitches to attendees. It’s basically speed dating, but for digital publishing. Each session lasted long enough that all attendees could hear each of the [...]

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BookExpo America 2012

by Sabrina Publishing
Book Expo America, BEA

Harlem globetrotters at BEA! This year’s BEA was exciting, and well, a little tiring. Next week I’ll be posting some of my highlights of the show, but for now I’d like to share a couple interesting tidbits. At this year’s show there were 1300 exhibitors and 22,365 industry professionals. This year was also the first time [...]

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Writers, Readers, Publishers: Present Tense, Future Bold #2

by Sabrina Future

Last night’s meeting for Present Tense, Future Bold featured guest speaker Rick Joyce, the chief marketing officer of Perseus Books. Perseus is a publisher and a printer/distributor for over 300 indie publishers. According to Rick the digital transition happened distinctly in each industry (music, books, etc.), and was not monolithic. But, the future of print [...]

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DBW12 – eBooks for Everyone Else

by Sabrina Publishing

The second day of DBW12 had a few interesting on-going series. The one I chose to listen to was eBooks for Everyone Else, which had panels for design, marketing, and distribution.

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DBW12 – What publishing can learn from the romance genre

by Sabrina Publishing

The romance genre is an interesting one. Of all the genres, it sells the most ebooks, probably because you can read a romance book with some privacy on an ereader. The romance panel had some interesting insights into ebook publishing, which I think other publishers can learn from and apply to their own companies. The [...]

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BEA Day 1

by Sabrina Publishing
BEA

First day of my first BEA, BookExpo America. Fortunately, because of this publishing blog, I was able to attend for free! I spent about five hours today at the Expo, and I still wasn’t able to cover everything. It can be a little overwhelming, as some attendees may agree, but totally worth it. This year, [...]

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing

Last year Skyhorse Publishing acquired Sports Publishing, and starting this year they will be “releasing instant books about the winning teams of major sporting events—albeit with a twist.” Skyhorse will update relevant backlist titles. For example, because of the Green Bay Packers win on Superbowl Sunday, Skyhorse reissued Tales from the Green Bay Packers SidelineTales [...]

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Visit to HarperCollins

by Sabrina Publishing
HarperCollins

My interactive media class was held at HarperCollins today. I don’t have the best photo of the building, but we were told to wait outside until 6:30 p.m. so as not to overwhelm security, and it was freezing. Below freezing, in fact, it was snowing, and we were waiting in a wind tunnel, longingly looking [...]

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