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SURVEY: Does Your Publishing Company Still Rely on Paper-based Internal Systems?

Paper is pervasive in publishing and implementing an all-digital operating system is costly. Tell us where you stand in the transition from paper to digital-based  … 

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A Contagious Vector of Awesome: Publishing and Culture Trends at #SXSW 2011

By Edward Nawotka AUSTIN: Men with full lumberjack beards and ironic t-shirts flirting with women in baby-doll dresses and artful “ink,” everyone sneaking peeks at  … 

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SURVEY: How Can Booksellers Futureproof Their Business?

Tell us what should booksellers should prioritize to save themselves. By Edward Nawotka Over the years booksellers have added coffee shops, stationery, toys, games, music  … 

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Is the Print-and-Pray Model of Book Publishing Dead?

By Edward Nawotka Publishers typically can’t predict bestsellers. Wouldn’t a better model be to bring the customers to them first? Today’s lead story looks at  … 

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Could Social Media Replace Some Books?

By Edward Nawotka In today’s thoughtful editorial by Franz Wisner, he argues that the immediate, fragmentary nature of most writing on the Internet and social  … 

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What are the New Digital Classics?

By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story looks at a new study on digital publishing released by the Forum d’Avignon and Bain & Co. The end  … 

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Is Writing for the Web a “Fools Bargain”?

By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story features an interview with Jaron Lanier, philosopher and author of You Are Not a Gadget, in which he says,  … 

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Publishing Perspectives Editor-in-Chief Ed Nawotka Interviewed

By Edward Nawotka This past summer I spoke to Jason Allen-Ashlock of the Movable Type Literary Group for Galleycat’s “The Book Futurists” series of video  … 

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