TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
Color OLED Sony e-reader: Video shows prototype with flex-tech screen
Monday, October 19th, 2009By Ted Treanor, publishing consultant
Note: Ted Treanor, founder of NetGalley, has just joined the Gilbane Group as a senior publishing strategies consultant. Congratulations, Ted. – P.B.
The video shows a Sony prototype of an OLED color e-book reader that rocks. One complaint of my speed reading friend is that page-flipping on any current e-reader interrupts his reading when he flips to the next page while the screen pulls in the content. Wait until you see the smooth and rapid page-flipping technology from Sony. The video is from last week’s Ceatec conference in Tokyo. To succeed in publishing over the next five years, we will need to embrace digital publishing and engage e-books, e-reader technology and social media.
Free the galley slaves! Sony-Adobe pact will help pubs shift from paper galleys to the E variety, via NetGalley-style companies
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Hundreds of galleys go out just to promote a typical new book from a large publisher.
Bestsellers may require thousands. And expenses can add up. What’s more, consider the burden on small houses.
So I was happy to see—buried in a content-related announcement from Sony—word of an alliance with a little company called NetGalley. Book reviewers with Sony Readers will be able to download Reader-friendly PDFs from NetGalley.
DRM will be an option for NetGalley’s publisher clients. Because advance reading copies often reach reviewers months ahead of publication, publishers are often extra-security-minded. In time I’d love for ePub and perhaps social DRM to predominate, but the current arrangement is a start, since traditional DRM is just an option even now. NetGalley is to offer ePub in the fall with a similar choice.
Amazon: Money trail helps reveal its digital strategy
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009By Ted Treanor, publishing consultant
Ted Treanor, our latest contributor, is notable for founding NetGalley and other important sites. Ted’s bio appears at the end. He is now a publishing consultant with The Consulting Garage. Welcome, Ted! – D.R.
So what’s Amazon’s digital strategy? Let’s follow the money trail.
In 2005 Amazon bought BookSurge and Mobipocket in one month. That clearly showed a commitment to both digital and traditional book publishing.
Significantly, Amazon saw the potential of print on demand. And it wanted an infrastructure to support its activities not just in books but also in other industries, too.
Here is an awesome link to a visualization of Amazon’s entire history of investments in buying companies across all industries—a detailed view of overwhelming visualization above.
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Human by Choice, by Darrell Bain and Travis S. Taylor
Read a free excerpt at Twilight Times Books and visit Darrell Bain's and Travis Taylor's Web sites.
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Burnout, by Stephanie Osborn
SF mystery about a Space Shuttle disaster--and strange deaths on earth. Read a free excerpt at Twilight Times Books and visit Steph's Web page.
‘The Solomon Scandals’ novel: Suspense, a newspaper, and a rickety high-rise
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