Best of TOC (Tools of Change Conference)

An e-book of Best of TOC is available at no charge from O’Reilly Press. at this link. The assemblage of tech writing by TOC speakers and others was put together as a showpiece for the second-generation Espresso Book Machine shown at the conference, with p-books printed and bound in seven minutes (on the low-end device; shorter times for more expensive equipment are promised).

Read the whole thing here from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 10pm

Queen launches new-look website

"The Queen's website has been relaunched at Buckingham Palace, in the company of world-wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee."

Read the whole thing here from BBC News | Technology

Filed Under: [News • The Web]

Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 9pm

An optimistic observation for publishers around ebooks

Mike Shatzkin from Publishing Frontier writes:

"OK, here’s an optimistic observation for publishers."

"Let’s say more and more real book readers find, ‘you know, reading on this iPhone, Android, smartphone I have is pretty good…’ And the marketplace for reading on the phones grows quickly. Plenty of skeptics for that idea, sure. But not impossible. (Keep this in mind: three doublings make ebooks 8% of the market. Will that happen in 3 years? It certainly couldn’t take as long as five…)" ....

Read the whole thing here from Publishing Frontier

Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks]

Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

Adobe and Stanza Open Up iPhone to Secure eBooks

"The announcement that Stanza will support Adobe’s ACS4 DRM is good news for the wider book industry. It enables PDF Adobe eBooks and epub files to be read on the iPhone platform through Stanza’s market leading free book reader ..."

(Via Booksellers Association.)

Read it here

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Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

Google Buys … A Paper Mill?

Consider it a sign of the times when internet company Google acquires the buildings and premises of a mill site from a paper, packaging and forest products company that caters to the print industry.

(Via TechCrunch.)

Filed Under: [Global • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

What’s New With The Kindle 2

This morning Amazon officially announced its second-generation ebook, the Kindle 2...

(Via TechCrunch.)

Filed Under: [eBooks • News • The Web]

Posted on 06 Feb 2009 around 9am

Amazon Take Off their eBook Format Gloves

Publishers Weekly today announced that Amazon.com has notified its publisher and author clients that it plans to cease offering e-books in the Microsoft Reader and Adobe e-book formats.

Sourced at Booksellers Association

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Posted on 01 Feb 2009 around 5pm

ALPSP announces trial Open Access option

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), have announced that their journal Learned Publishing will have a trial Open Access option.

With the 'ALPSP Author Choice', authors can choose to make the online version of their article freely available to all immediately on publication. You can read the press release on the ALPSP web site.

Filed Under: [Publishing • Journals • Open Source]

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Posted on 31 Jul 2007 around 7am

University Publishing in a Digital Age

Ithaka has released University Publishing in a Digital Age by Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (preface by Kevin Guthrie).

Sourced at DigitalKoans

Filed Under: [Publishing • Education • Text Books]

Posted on 28 Jul 2007 around 8pm

‘Expresso’: Print on demand books at the New York Public Library—and a possible in

Even high-contrast flavors of E Ink won’t please the really picky. But maybe they’ll go for the print-on-demand titles they can “brew” up via the “Expresso” machine at the NYPL (Engadget and GalleyCat via Peter Brantley). Most of the printable titles are apparently in the public domain. But what about the copyright issues for those that aren’t? Any special arrangements that NYPL has made with publishers? I’d assume they exist. If so, how about moving on to copies e-books that patrons could legally keep, as long as they didn’t redistribute them? Use quotas and social DRM if need be. But do experiment.

Detail: Other Expressos are on the way to other libraries, including in New Orleans. See news release from OnDemandBooks.

Sourced at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Filed Under: [Book Publishing • Print Technology]

Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 4pm

Librarians respond to global e-book survey with some interesting results

A recent survey commissioned by ebrary who operate in the library and publishing sectors, has found users of e-books don’t rely on Google to search for content. They received responses from 552 individual libraries, the majority of which were academic...

Sourced at IWR Blog

Filed Under: [Education • Text Books]

Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 10am

Open Publication Structure 2.0 Elevated to IDPF Member & Public Review

Nick Bogarty from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) writes that the Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0 has been elevated for IDPF Member and Public Review. The review period will begin today and extend for 30 days ending on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007. The IDPF strongly encourages feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether IDPF members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of IDPF work.

Sourced at Gilbane Group Publishing Practice Blog

Filed Under: [Open Source • Technology • The Web]

Posted on 23 Jun 2007 around 10am