By Hannah Johnson The best of social media and the blogosphere… Publishing industry consultant Mike Shatzkin of the Idea Logical company blogged about how the digital transition is different for trade publishers vs. other types of publishers. It’s a preview of a larger project he promises to reveal in the next couple weeks that will enumerate exactly why trade publishers, …
German Buch News: More on Amazon v. Orwell; Bookface.de
By Siobhan O’Leary The German trades are full of talk about the Amazon Orwell deletion. Among the most notable is the short opinion piece by Boersenblatt editor Holger Heimann which compared the deletion to a bookseller sneaking into someone apartment to reclaim books that have already been purchased. “Disaster is inevitable. A precedent has been set,” he wrote. Buchreport.de highlights …
Bonus Material: The Online In-Crowd
By Edward Nawotka httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0FgRKsqqUa Richard Eoin Nash isn’t alone in thinking that publishing as we know it is coming to an end. He’s part of a much broader constituency who believes the old paradigms are shifting away from individual producers and toward crowds. Among the chief progenitors of this idea is Clay Shirkey. His book Here Comes Everybody (now in …
Bonus Material: Making Obama’s Video Viral
By Edward Nawotka One person who understood how to leverage social media was Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe. Obama’s campaign inspired numerous digital campaign messages produced on their own by Obama’s supporters. One of the most popular was musician Will.i.am’s video “Yes We Can.” Michael Terpin of SocialRadi.us was hired to promote it online. Here, he describes his very …
Che for Children
By Edward Nawotka Dennis Abrams is the author of more than twenty nonfiction books for children and has covered topics as varied as celebrity chef Rachael Ray, politician Hillary Clinton, and the Opium Wars. His latest book is a biography of Argentine Che Guevara, forthcoming from US publisher Chelsea House this summer. In this Publishing Perspectives video, Abrams discusses the …
Ed Nawotka at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair 2009
Publishing Perspectives editor-in-chief Ed Nawotka offers his impressions of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which took place in March 2009. SEE: A video of Chad Post, Open Letter, at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair 2009 EXPLORE: Information about the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair