Entrepreneur Nadim Sadek and publisher Evan Schnittman on the gleam of AI-driven consumer outreach behind a start-up called Shimmr.ai.
Are Reports of the Death of the Book App Premature?
Publishers say book apps cost too much to produce. Of course they do, after all, they are publishing companies, not production companies.
UK Publishers Seek ‘Most Thrilling Outcome for Readers and Writers’
UK publishers are ready to capitalize on digitization as evidenced by the smart, pointed discussions at Monday’s Bookseller Futurebook Conference.
#BEA11: Publishers Debate Future of Enhanced E-books at IDPF Conference
By Hannah Johnson In a roundtable discussion at the IDPF Digital Book Conference, panelists — Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury), Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks) and Richard Nash (Red Lemonade, Cursor) — discussed the future of the publishing business by way of enhanced e-books and apps. Raccah, the CEO of mid-sized publisher Sourcebooks, was the lone champion of both enhanced e-books and apps on …
E-Publishing in the UK: The Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns
Despite the digital wave sweeping over publishing, some publishers are surprised at how seldom e-books are talked about at this year’s London Book Fair LONDON: As former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld once said (and I paraphrase) “there are known knowns, known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns.” London has been rife with news about e-publishing, oddly, much of it …