Waxing Philosophical, Booksellers Face the Digital
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At BookExpo America, the publishing industryâs annual convention, the battering ram of technology was back.
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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By Anonymous  Editorial Perhaps it's churlish to preach prudence in an issue dedicated to a celebration of the growth of digital, but for those people around in the last internet boom, the sense of deja vu in current times is unsettling.
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Defying conventional wisdom in the age of the megachain, McNally Robinson Booksellers of Canada will open a new independent book store in Manhattan.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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More and more retailers are employing rigorous scientific techniques to improve their bottom line.
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Chinese publishers discover that online novel sales help move physical books off the shelves. And for a growing number of authors and readers, epic tales on the web are a thriving art form.
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Bloggers are scoring rich paydays by   turning their online diaries into books, but some publishers   say the craze could fizzle out with a glut of new titles   destined to yield disappointing sales.
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Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the Web.
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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Kirkus Reviews, which has long prided itself on being a sort of Consumer Reports for the book publishing industry, is embracing a new spirit of commercialism.
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In this era of drive-by searching when most people are satisfied with just about any 'information' that turns up in top ten result lists, it's refreshing to read a book by a professional researcher who's an unabashed skeptic about virtually all sources of online information.
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Books have been a bit of the orphan in the digital world. Music has the iPod. Video has YouTube. Books have, well, Amazon.com, where you can buy them printed on paper.
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The intense bibliographic appeal of âPeople of the Bookâ turns out to be a mixed blessing.
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Controversial book search engine can be co-branded and embedded on publishers' sites.
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Book publishers are slowly warming up to the idea of putting their content online, with two companies announcing separate plans to offer web-based methods to search through their catalogs.
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Industry magazine The Bookseller has opened voting for the oddest book title of the year, some of which suggest that nothing is stranger than non-fiction.