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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Japan’s National library joins digital wave, will offer books online –
Fascinating stuff this Japan’s largest library will begin offering online access to selected books on Feb. 1, starting with 13 works that include some of the country’s most famous epics and folk tales and a novel written by one of its most acclaimed novelists. The National Diet Library is trying…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Local publishers find new life by digitizing out-of-print, hard-to-find titles
Interesting piece throughout. Perhaps the most interesting thing is the way it illuminates just how much easier digital makes publishing, for everyone. Interesting too that the bookstore is seeing opportunities upstream from book-selling, driving its own revenues, something there has been too little discussion of in recent years among bookstores.…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Get Ready For More Mergers And Acquisitions In Book Publishing – Forbes
Interesting piece: 5. As the way people consume media changes, book publishers are realizing they are content creation and rights management companies and not just book publishers. Many of them are now playing in the app market, educational technology market and other areas they likely wouldn’t have dreamed of a…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing |
I’m pretty sure I disagree with a good bit in this article, but disagreement has never been enough to make me lose interest in something, especially if it is worthwhile disagreement. One paragraph that caught my eye in particular: The crowdsourcing frenzy alone is enough to cause uneasiness — the…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Print as the future of Barnes & Noble | DearAuthor
A good piece, the unspoken element here is that the B&N described here is a much smaller B&N in terms of store and probably in terms of store size as well: Instead B&N should pour that money into the development of a low cost, high efficiency print on demand machine.…
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