2010: highs and lows (dbw roundtable)


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Jason BoogPublishing Editor, mediabistro.com@jasonboog

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Emily WilliamsCo-chair, BISG Rights Subcommittee@emilyw00

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The Bookstore of the FutureWhat does the Espresso Book Machine® cost?

USD $97,500 plus printer. The printers range in price from about $4,000 to $25,000.

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/faq.htm


Libraries’ Silver Lining


The Self-Publishing Opportunity

Three mistakes will plague the six huge publishing conglomerates, a.k.a., the Six Sisters:

• Their blockbuster profit model is unsustainable;• They're not capable of marketing those titles that are in the market segment with the greatest profit potential;• They've stopped nurturing the majority of their talent with the editorial and promotional nutrition necessary for them to blossom into bestselling authors, the so-called mid-list authors whose early efforts showed enough promise to be published, but didn't return a profit.

“Booking the future,” Ransom Stephens15 June 2009

http://bit.ly/aDuh6U


DiscoverabilitySearch and Serendipity in the Digital Age


Social Media Reality Check

“Be aware that not only do you need to be prepared to communicate over these platforms, but you need to be ready to deal with the responses you get.”

--Caroline McCarthy, CNET news

FOLIO: Social Media Will be ‘Part of Virtually Everything’http://bit.ly/cyqWeK


Community vs. Commerce

“Some of these conversations ended in a sale, but don’t let that fool you.The sale was merely the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence.”

Markets Are Conversations, CLUETRAIN MANIFESTOhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/230233024/


Browser Wars 2.0


The Amazon Effect


The Agency Model


Amazon vs. Apple


eReaders: The New Mass Market?


eBook Anecdotes

“If you look at who’s done well with new technology, it’s been Steve Jobs and Apple, along with EBay, Amazon and Netflix. All the wealth was created outside the business that experienced the change.”

Ken Hertz, lawyer and entertainment marketing strategisthttp://bit.ly/cSMiXK


Publishing Math Games

List Price: $35.99AMZN Price: $14.99AMZN Price: $44.99

List Price: $99.99AMZN Price: $62.99


Decline and Fall of Literature

"The concentration, the focus, the solitude, the silence, all the things that are required for serious reading are not within people's reach anymore. Now it is the multiple screens and there is no competing against it."

Philip Roth reflects on novel's decline and "Nemesis"http://yhoo.it/da1YEp


Enhanced eBooksEntertainment, Education…Accessibility?


Live from BEA 2010

“Who has time for all the enhancement?You could be in there forever.”

Jonathan GalassiPublisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“[Enhanced eBooks for fiction are] the Emperor's New Clothes... It's not adding additional value for consumers, just additional expense for publishers.”

Charlie RedmayneEVP, Chief Digital Officer, HarperCollins


The eBook Sales DipeBook Readers, 2-5 years

Tablet PC,2-5 years

Web 2.0, NOW


Don’t Believe the Hype

Two in three children say they will always want to read books printed on paper even though there are eBooks available. Kids who already have experience reading eBooks are just as likely as kids who have not had experience eReading to agree.

-2010 Kids & Family Reading Report™


What is a Publisher?

“Deep technology shifts usually remove the ability to focus on a single axis.”

“Transmedia and web-based delivery are examples where new entrants better able to produce, distribute.”

Organizational Fields and the Book IndustryPeter Brantley, Firebrand Community Conference9/21/10


New Skills for Publishing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shatteredmartialartiststream/3243127488/

I’m learning, because I want to learn animation, I want to learn video games, I want to learn every… I want to learn book publishing and I want to learn TV. Why? Because, as a storyteller, I’m convinced that in the next five to ten years, we’re going to need to know all of that. All of that…

Del Toro: The Future Of Storytelling Is Transmedia - Techland - TIME.comhttp://bit.ly/ajfbYX


Digitize Thyself

http://www.flickr.com/photos/attackcat/3752438918/


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