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http://www.teleread.com/reading-2/another-print-vs-paper-story/
One of the wonderful things about technology is that it causes us to ask questions that we had never previously thought of. The print vs. e-book question had never once been asked prior to the 2000s. But it’s a question that every bibliophile has struggled with at some point in recent years. I know I have. Before I discuss which side of the stick I happen to fall on, let’s delve into the battle a little bit first.
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The printing of books hasn’t changed all that much since the advent of the printing press. The process has become easier and cheaper as technology advanced. No matter the price a particular publisher sets for the print edition of a book, the actual cost to print is essentially the same for all publishers. It isn’t as though one publisher has the printing technology of 2005 and another of 1900. Printing is…
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Large newspaper companies are struggling with a very real-world version of Clay Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma” — namely, the need to transition from a print-focused business model to a digital one, with all the mess and upheaval that entails. But how do you actually take a chain of almost a hundred small daily and weekly newspapers and transform those newsrooms in real time? That’s what Digital First Media is trying to do with what it calls Project Unbolt, a new effort that CEO John Paton launched earlier this week.
The name, Paton said in a presentation to the Online Publishers Association, comes from the way in which traditional media entities often see digital or online publishing as something they “bolt on” to their existing processes, which he argued is exactly the wrong way to approach the problem — and in fact dooms anyone who does approach it that way to…
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The link below is to an article that reports on an upgrade to Israel’s Dead Sea Scrolls digital archive.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/israel-dead-sea-scrolls-digital-archive
The link below is to an article that takes a look at a new digital publishing company just for females.
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http://www.teleread.com/publishing/shebooks-do-we-need-a-place-for-strictly-female-readers/
I recently attended Le Web in Paris, where the theme of the conference was innovation in the next decade. It got me to thinking about where we go with publishing. Even on Google, you won’t be able to find an article on publishing trends from the 1440s, the decade after Johannes Gutenberg introduced movable type printing to Europe. But if you did, it would probably focus more on the gloomy outlook for the illuminated manuscript industry than on the then-unfolding print revolution, which launched cascading innovations that would change everything and usher in the Age of Enlightenment.
Something similar is at work today: Digital publishing is now a mature, thriving industry, and yet many still insist that publishing is in its death throes. Book publishers know better: While hardcover sales declined slightly between 2008 and 2012 (from $5.2 billion to $5 billion), eBook sales grew at an astonishing clip…
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The link below is to an article that makes some predictions concerning digital publishing for 2014.
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http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/ten-bold-predictions-for-ebooks-and-digital-publishing-in-2014
The links below are to two separate articles dealing with book fanatics of both the traditional form and the digital form.
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– http://bookriot.com/2013/12/11/dont-care-dogear-pages-confessions-failed-book-fanatic/
– http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/confessions-of-an-ebook-fanatic/
The link below is to an article that looks at the place of publishing in the midst of the digital revolution.
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115010/publishing-industry-thriving
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