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Culture of Content Creation ...
Culture of Content Creation ... 
In the last week there have been two great audio interviews on the future of books. 
I will keep on biting the elephant. And when I'm old and toothless, I'll gum the elephant. Because a real writer never stops. 
In the final of the two-week intensive period of the Future of Journalism conference, Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalism at City University New York ... sums up the 10 questions that news organisations in general ... should be asking now. 
I got to the Missouri State University Bookstore in Columbia, Missouri in the early afternoon, and went downstairs to where they kept their Espresso machine. 
Most authors focus on generating royalties from their book sales. In this guest post from Dan Miller he explains why it is better to focus on generating business. 
How Will Your Book Be Published? Let's talk today about publishing and what are your options for your book now that you have a manuscript. 
When Amazon selected Laurence Kirshbaum to head its New York-based book publishing initiative, many publishing people greeted the news with unalloyed... Amazon.com Inc. is at it again. To the consternation of much of the book industry, the online giant is again offering digital titles for less than major publishers think books are worth. And this time, the price is zero. 
Some writers are up in arms that Amazon's Kindle Lending Library is offering their books for free. 
As books increasingly become digital, what’s the most effective way to create value for readers, authors and intermediaries? 
In the expanding world of self-publishing, which has exploded with digital technology and the emergence of e-books, authors who already have a following can easily make money going it alone. Others hope to be found. 
Newsstand, a new feature of iOS 5, is hitting it big with traditional media publishers thanks to its windfall delivery of new digital subscriptions. |
I thought I'd do something different and write a blog post about the iPad. Why add to the noise? Because my beloved publishing industry, my source of professional identity and income, is on the verge of blowing it. 
Without a doubt, the competition is finding itself increasingly squeezed on the high end by the iPad's maturity and at the low end by e-reader progeny. "...in China, nearly 195 million people are hooked on a kind of literature that is virtually unknown in the West, but that is rapidly transforming its authors and a new breed of online media companies into the publishing stars of the future." 
Walking blindly into the digital world assuming that all remains the same is in danger of establishing a set of urban myths that we have written about in the past but that continue to dog all our thinking and real digital opportunities. 
I'm not falling for it. You shouldn't either. 
Yesterday I picked up the latest Neal Stephenson novel, Reamde, and was—as I typically am every time I pick up a Stephenson book—floored by its immensity. 
Recently, the UK Publishers Association reported that there has been a significant increase in the sale of e-books, highlighting the growing popularity of digital readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad. 
Random House's announcement that it would drop its print catalog added to the growing chorus of publishers moving to a digital-only business model. HD video interviews with policy makers, entrepreneurs, star fund managers, Wall St. analysts, CEOs, and stock market commentators. 
Amazon unties the bow on its long-anticipated iPad competitor, the Kindle Fire. 
The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened? |
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