Where the Boys Are Not - 0 views
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Heather Walrath on 20 Sep 10An article in today's PublishersWeekly examines why publishing is now a primarily female-dominated field and just how this affects the industry.
that's what you'll get.
Joint venture - 0 views
Hello America, I'm co-running the Publishing MA at Anglia Ruskin University with Sam Rayner. Our semester has just started and we have welcomed our new intake for, this, our second year. I'll put t...
Apple in talks with publishers over digital newsstand - 1 views
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Bloomberg reports that Apple is developing a digital newsstand to allow publishers to sell magazines and newspapers designed for reading on iPads and other Apple devices.
Is Print Dead? (Infographic) - 2 views
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Some stats on the state of print.
Newsweek: Digital Textbooks May Revolutionize Education - 0 views
Barnes & Noble CEO Sends Letter to Shareholders - MarketWatch - 0 views
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Barnes & Noble details their marketing next steps for the future.
In Bookstore's End, No Joy for Sidewalk Seller - 0 views
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A look at a different way for books to get to the public...
Amazon.com: The Book in the Renaissance (9780300110098): Prof. Andrew Pettegree: Books - 0 views
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free ebook sample on bn.com
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Best Buy to Sell Kindle In Stores, Enhance E-Reader Displays - 2 views
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Best Buy announced on Sept. 9 that it will begin selling Amazon's Kindle in stores. Best Buy will then be the only retailer where consumers can compare, in person, the Nook, Kindle, and Sony readers, plus the iPad.
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views
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and that's what you deserve.
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you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
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Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
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Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
PLoS Medicine: The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold "HRT" - 1 views
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Troubling data on how Big Pharma corrupts STM publishing.
Net Neutrality Talks Are a Struggle for What We Already Have - 2 views
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Seems like it should be a simple issue, but complications are growing and the threat to to the Internet as we know it is on the rise.
Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - 1 views
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This shift, of course, plays into the problem, since any shrewd publishing type can see how the paper book's demise might make it easier to digitally trim, abridge, and repackage texts in more "appealing" forms than their benighted authors envisaged.
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A useful text with which to muse on this subject is Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (PublicAffairs, 2009).
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A reflection on threats to sustained, immersive reading and the culture that produces it.
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