Social reading seems like a counterintuitive idea, but it enriches both reading and publishing, argues Anobii CEO Matteo Berlucchi.
What Startups Can Teach Publishers
The relationships between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and authors and publishers are more similar than you might think.
Win a €599 Ticket for TOC Frankfurt on Facebook
Frankfurt Academy is holding a Facebook contest to give away a ticket to the Tools of Change Frankfurt conference in October
International Supply Chain Meeting Now Part of TOC Frankfurt
The International Supply Chain Meeting, a Frankfurt Book Fair staple for 32 years, will become part of the O’Reilly Tools of Change Frankfurt conference.
Storytime Goes Digital: Assessing the Children’s E-Book and App Market at TOC Bologna
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair focused on apps vs. e-books, legacy publishers vs. start-ups, and adapting to this digital world. By Sophie Rochester The children’s market is a huge opportunity within the digital publishing arena, but for the first time, computer and tech publishing giant O’Reilly Media took it’s “Tools of Change” conference on …
The Future of Publishing is “Anywhere, Anytime, Anyhow”
By Daniel Kalder NEW YORK: Founded seven years ago, MarkLogic is the maker of a database for “unstructured data” — which these days consists of 80% of the information on the Internet, including documents, emails, social media posts, tweets, pictures, video, blogs, and research data. Currently growing at an exponential rate, managing this type of information can be time-intensive and …
In Order to Compete in the Future, We Must Look Back
By Erin L. Cox Bookselling is an art. When we talk about the business of publishing, sometimes we lose sight of the fact that what compels a lot of readers is the love of a book. To get to the heart of that relationship is how writers reach their audience and the conduit is more often than not a bookseller. As we …
From Camp to Con: The Book Maven on Conventioneering
There are 1,000 stories in the naked city, errr, at the Tools of Change for Publishing, and this is just one of them
TOC 2011: Toward an All-digital Workflow
By Hannah Johnson The publishing industry is often criticized for slow adoption of digital tools and processes, but Steve Kotrch, Director of Publishing Technology at Simon & Schuster, had fantastic examples at TOC today of the strides that big publishers have already made in this area and how these changes are not always visible to those outside the organization. Kotrch …
What Would You Do to Save Borders?
By Edward Nawotka It always seems like drama surrounds the big digital publishing conferences. In January 2010, attendees at the first annual Digital Book World eagerly awaited the announcement of the iPad. This year at Tools of Change in New York people have greeted the official announcement that Borders Book Group has filed for bankruptcy with a variety of reactions, …