By Hannah Johnson “Assuming that the physical book is the only incarnation for the writer-reader connection is, I think, a mistake,” said Richard Nash during his presentation at the BookNet Canada conference called “Calculated Risk: Adventures in Book Publishing” on March 25 in Toronto, Canada. The crux of Nash’s presentation was about supply and demand. The current supply chain that …
German Buch News: Campus Crashes Anderson; New iApps
By Siobhan O’Leary On the heels of Chris Anderson’s much-tweeted-about interview in Der Spiegel, Buchreport interviewed Franziska Schiebe, the online representative of Anderson’s German publisher, Campus Verlag. Schiebe announced that Campus has moved up publication of Anderson’s Free to September (from Spring 2010) to take advantage of the buzz that has erupted in the wake of the 300,000 free downloads of the …
What’s the Buzz: Twitter Indifference; Anderson’s Anti-news Views
By Hannah Johnson The latest stories that have everyone atwitter in the social media-o-sphere… Why do we even care about Twitter? According to a Harris Interactive study (via Mashable), 69% of adults have no opinion about Twitter because they don’t know enough about it. A now infamous 15-year-old intern at Morgan Stanley said that “teenagers don’t use Twitter” either. So …