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The anti-DRM struggle: Which stores, publishers and people are the heroes? Help ‘em enjoy the spotlight at the Tools of Change conference
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... DRM only because publishers insist on it. They really prefer that books appear in a bunch of formats without DRM, and as a bonus they’re updating their eReader software to handle ePub, the industry standard. Please help the anti-DRM cause by using the comments section of this post to name your own favorite anti-DRM examples. Or e-mail me. Mention the good guys’ actions or contemplated actions. Mark Coker, moderator of Tools of Change’s Feb. 10 panel on the rise of e-books, will be celebrating these ...

The Digitizers: Liza Daly of Threepress Consulting, Inc. on Bookworm, open source, ePub and other e-book topics
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... .  She is a frequent writer and speaker on publishing technology issues and will be appearing on two panels at the O’Reilly Tools of Change 2009 conference. - K.M. ...

O'Reilly Labs: RDF For All of Our Books, Plus Bookworm Ebook Reader
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — There's more details on the Labs blog, but timed with our Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, we've opened up RDF metadata for all of our books, and have also brought the open source Bookworm ebook reader into O'Reilly Labs. It's a great way to read any of our ebooks (more than 400 are now available as ebook bundles from oreilly.com) online and from a mobile phone:The experimental "O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface" (OPMI) exposes RDF for all of O'Reilly's titles, organized by ISBN. Here's a snippet of the RDF ...

Soft Skull’s Richard Nash, Ingram’s Frank Daniels III and SmashWords’ Mark Coker featured in forthcoming TeleRead audios—plus a video of the Plastic Logic e-reader
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Ahead for the TeleBlog, in the next few days, are such TOC-related goodies as audio interviews with: –Richard Nash of Soft Skull Press, shown in photo. –Frank Daniels III of Ingram (interviewed by our newest TeleBlog contributor, Karen Holt, former deputy editor of PW). Frank discusses topics ranging from DRM to VitalSource e-reading software, which includes interactive features highly useful in such fields as dental education. –Mark Coker of SmashWords (interviewed by ...

Soft Skull’s Richard Nash, Ingram’s Frank Daniels III and SmashWords’ Mark Coker in new audios—plus vid of Plastic Logic e-reader
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Ahead for the TeleBlog, in the next few days, are such TOC-related goodies as audio interviews with: –Richard Nash of Soft Skull Press, shown in photo. How can technology benefit a small press notable for its fresh fiction and willingness to publish controversial books, including a suppressed biography of George Bush? –Frank Daniels III of Ingram (interviewed by our newest TeleBlog contributor, Karen Holt, former deputy editor of PW). Frank discusses topics ranging from DRM to VitalSource e-reading ...

Rx for the iPhone book app limit: Fold ePub-based apps into Stanza-style libraries?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... Well, here’s a possible solution. Suppose novices could download a book containing a built-in reader, then enjoy the novel, whatever, without any need to install a reading program immediately. Then, later, once they were sold on e-books, the newbies could install a Stanza-type program and fold the app’s ePub file into the program’s book library—and in the process zap the originally purchased app. I kicked around this idea at Tools of Change while lunching with chief developer Marc Prud’hommeaux (right photo) and chief ...

Rocket eBook, SoftBook and Gemstar machines revisited: A few lessons from history
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — During the TOC panel on the Rise of E-Books, we wanted to show people an original Rocket eBook. Frustratingly, that more or less slipped through the cracks, except for an all-too-quick look when people were leaving the room. So, for conference attendees and other readers new to e-books, here’s an image of a genuine Rocket eBook. Along with the Softbook Reader (second photo), which appeared at or just before the Rocket eBook in 1998, the Rocket was the first dedicated e-reading device that gained widespread publicity. ...

Of e-books, DRM and Chinatown buses
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — I hopped aboard a Vamoose bus and paid just $25 to go from the Washington, D.C., area to  New York for O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change Conference. I could even use WiFi en route. Who’d have thunk? Many and perhaps most airlines are still puzzling out the WiFi issue. So just what do $25 bus fares have to do with e-books and p-books?  Plenty. What a great example of niche-filling—and of the possibility that minor players just might steal business away from the big boys if the ...

TeleRead audio interview: Smashwords encouraging self-pubbed writers to go POD as well as E
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... and other electronic formats. Mark Coker briefly discussed this during an audio interview with TeleRead Co-Editor Paul Biba during Tools of Change. "Authors should publish in print," Mark said—since e-book revenues are just a fraction of those from paper books. ...

TeleRead Audio: Ingram Digital’s Frank Daniels III talks to Karen Holt on e-newspapers vis-a-vis e-books, E prices, DRM and other topics
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — So what’s Ingram Digital up to these days in the area of e-books? Frank Daniels III, the company’s new chief commercial officer, spoke out on a number of topics in an audio interview with Karen Holt, former deputy managing editor of Publishers Weekly—conducted in the Tools of Change press room last week. Click for the MP3. Among the topics: –Frank’s most recent job. If it has to do with customers, he’s involved. Earlier he was chief operating officer. ...

Kat Meyer’s Tools of Change wrap-up
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — TeleBlog contributor Kat Meyer—see her interviews with Stanza COO Neelan Choksi and Bookworm ceator Liza Daly—cleverly captured the essence of the Tools of Change Conference on book technology. Details here. ...

Amazon To Offer Kindle eBooks On Other Mobile Devices. Will Tiny Lexcycle Survive?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... to coincide with O'Reilly's Tools of Change Conference (also taking place in NYC). Fortunately, I had my podcasting gear with me and seized the opportunity to get him on record about Lexcycle and Stanza. Just click the play button to ...

Tim O'Reilly Unplugged: The Kindle 2 And Transforming Industries
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , I sat down with O'Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly who was producing the Tools of Change For Publishing Conference across town. The book publishing industry is currently going through a massive, and in some cases very painful transition. In my podcast interview with O'Reilly (full transcription below), he discusses Amazon's decisions from his perspective as a book publisher, how this transition actually began centuries ago, and where it's going. Is it a case study that your industry can learn from? There's actually a bit of irony in Amazon's choice of the Morgan ...

The 'Un-Demise' Of Publishing
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Feb 20, 2009 11:47 AM [image] I've been having interesting conversations about content and content management of late with consultant Russ Edelman, an enterprise content management veteran and recent first-time author. I found his thoughts on the recent O'Reilly Tools of Change Publishing conference worth sharing. Russ is CEO of Corridor Consulting, and the book is ...

Free e-books: Good or bad for sales? And can even pirated editions help at times?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Do publishers and writers come out ahead when free e-books go out on the Net—deliberately or as pirated editions? Will the freebies encourage readers to buy paper editions, or the remainder of a series? Can even unauthorized P2P distribution help publishers? Such tricky issues were discussed at the recent Tools of Change Conference. Now, following up on that, publishers and others can sign up for "A Rough Cut edition of ‘Impact of P2P and Free Distribution on Book Sales,’"  coming from ...

How to use Twitter to promote your e-book or paper book—and build professional and personal relationships, perhaps the biggest benefit
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... For book-specific advice for Twitter and other social networks, check out Bring Sexy Back to the Book Party in the Digital Age,  ...

Might a B&N-branded e-reader be on the way? And how about e-and-p syncing? Plus a TeleRead video of the Plastic Logic machine in action
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... screen, from Plastic Logic? That’s the company for which Fictionwise is to create an e-store. Might the PL device also carry B&N branding as part of a war against the Kindle? Since PL is so open to others doing their own branding, this just might be within the realm of the possible for both Fictionwise and B&N’s forthcoming e-bookstore. The photos and video of the PL machine, by the way, were made by TeleRead co-editor Paul Biba during the Tools of Change conference. Notice the Kindle to the right of the PL device in the ...

Keeping your place in the book: Adobe’s Bill McCoy favors open syncing to make this easier
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... This scenario of open synching would be a win for most everyone, vendors and readers; even Amazon would benefit in the long term since e-book would be less of a hassle. The Lexcycle folks, the developers of Stanza, loved the open sync idea when I discussed it with them over lunch at Tools of Change. The key is to have the right standards for syncing and reading among different apps and devices, and meanwhile, if Steve can release an ePub version of Say My Name, then so much the better. ...

Keeping your place in the book: Adobe’s Bill McCoy favors open syncing
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... This scenario of open synching would be a win for most everyone, vendors and readers; even Amazon would benefit in the long term since e-book would be less of a hassle. The Lexcycle people, the developers of Stanza, loved the open sync idea when I discussed it with them over lunch at Tools of Change. The key is to have the right standards for syncing and reading among different apps and devices, and meanwhile, if Steve can release an ePub version of Say My Name, then so much the better. ...