Entries in Books
Feb 6, 2012
The reader interface
Let's make reading addictive
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Feb 5, 2012
Publishing conversations
A reason to start blogging
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Feb 3, 2012
Ripple effects
Missing the boat, or sinking it?
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Feb 1, 2012
Locked things …
... meant to be unlocked
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Jan 31, 2012
Starting conversations
Diversity can drive conference engagement
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Jan 30, 2012
Why pyramids?
"Think of them as an immense invitation"
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Jan 28, 2012
Stage two
Using PressBooks to write, edit and publish a book in parts
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Jan 25, 2012
Foster reading
What can publishers do better than Amazon?
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Jan 24, 2012
Harder by the day
What to do when all brands are publishers
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Jan 23, 2012
“We’ll be back”
Why SOPA will never be "over"
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Jan 20, 2012
How to fix copyright
"Facts are stubborn things"
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Jan 19, 2012
Life during wartime
"This ain't no party"
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Jan 14, 2012
A reader in every pot
Deciding how you want to read
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Jan 12, 2012
A nextPub opportunity
Streamlining the delivery of content
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Jan 5, 2012
Gateways to piracy
When "service" and "availability" are last
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Jan 4, 2012
This must be the place
On testing prices to maximize revenue
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Jan 2, 2012
Life plus 70
(Not) celebrating Public Domain Day
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Dec 28, 2011
Competing with pirates
Some advice for Lucía Etxebarria
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Dec 19, 2011
A holiday tale
'Twas the night before eBooks
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Dec 14, 2011
Know your rights
Building smaller-scale rights engines
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Dec 13, 2011
A seat at the table
Of baseball contracts and libraries
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Nov 14, 2011
Beyond container myopia
Creating the engine of the engagement economy
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Nov 11, 2011
Not pretty enough
Everybody wants to rule the world
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Oct 31, 2011
The opportunity in abundance
Let's put our heads together
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Oct 27, 2011
Streaming #BiB11
Links to the 2011 Internet Archive conference
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Oct 19, 2011
Don’t bank on scarcity
Lessons learned from a prophet of abundance
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Oct 9, 2011
“Context first” round-up
For a TOC panel, links to previously published material
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Jun 27, 2011
Thinking about tomorrow
A reason to start over new
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Jun 20, 2011
Amberizing glasses
The dizzy spiral of goodbye
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Jun 17, 2011
Growing digital exports
A new research paper offers some best practices
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Jun 16, 2011
Here to stay
Part 3 of a Quill & Quire interview
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Jun 15, 2011
A business case for context
Part 2 of a Quill & Quire interview
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Jun 14, 2011
Context vs. container
Part 1 of a Quill & Quire interview
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Jun 13, 2011
Thing four
Provide readers with tools that help manage abundance
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Jun 12, 2011
Thing three
Develop opportunities to encourage broader content use
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Jun 11, 2011
Thing two
Use context to promote discovery
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Jun 10, 2011
Thing one
Content must become open, accessible and interoperable
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May 18, 2011
Mobile reading resources
An updated bibliography
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May 17, 2011
Other interpretations
What anecdata show and don't tell
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May 16, 2011
My six-word memoir
And now for something completely different
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May 12, 2011
A useful discussion
Joe Esposito thinks about 'brand, context and containers'
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May 10, 2011
Tablets “vs” e-readers
Why content availability must be "either-and"
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May 9, 2011
One shot
Mobile, "heralding a new era of commerce"
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May 5, 2011
Follow the …
Explaining the impact of piracy starts with data
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May 3, 2011
At 30 knots …
The sonar of fighting piracy
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May 2, 2011
The cost of disruption
Will digital reading “wreck” publishing?
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May 1, 2011
Another object lesson
Publishing gets to rethink the reader experience
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Apr 30, 2011
Object lesson
A picture of what "new skills" implies
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Apr 29, 2011
Want to fight piracy?
Try being truly open and interoperable
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Apr 26, 2011
The sixth secret
On Twitter, visibility cuts both ways
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Apr 21, 2011
Squeezed out?
Making nice with my frenemies just got harder
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Apr 19, 2011
Pursuing “either-and”
Making a business case for new publishing workflows
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Apr 18, 2011
Wing of madness
(Not yet) dedicated to a transformation
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Apr 15, 2011
Show me the data!
The convening power of social reading platforms
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Apr 14, 2011
A promising discussion
BISG leads a conversation about publishing in 2020
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Apr 13, 2011
Rules of the game
How publishers work becomes how they compete
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Apr 12, 2011
How would you know?
If piracy is a business expense, let's measure it
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Apr 11, 2011
Try and stop us
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak ...
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Apr 1, 2011
Duarte on presentations
An agent for change interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo
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Mar 1, 2011
Content abundance
Precursor to the development of context
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Feb 25, 2011
Devils and dust
Fear’s a powerful thing
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Feb 22, 2011
Collaborative ideation
A story behind a story
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Feb 21, 2011
“Context first”, revisited
A second pass at a unified field theory of publishing
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Jan 26, 2011
Container myopia
Looking for answers, not books
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Jan 25, 2011
Don’t frustrate demand
Small things matter
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Jan 20, 2011
Overcoming obstacles
Getting out of my chair
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Jan 17, 2011
A man for others
"A ministry of showing up"
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Jan 11, 2011
On the Radar
What I've learned studying piracy
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Jan 10, 2011
What hath NPR wrought?
A social reading case history
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Jan 6, 2011
A new kind of hello
A borrower and a lender be
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Dec 31, 2010
Deer in headlights
At the end of being proud
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Dec 14, 2010
Transparency trumps piracy
Leaks matter less when we have fewer secrets
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Dec 8, 2010
Three hits
We lay covered in our best sins
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Dec 3, 2010
Revisiting ‘curation nation’
Fostering communities on the Wordpress platform
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Nov 25, 2010
All about balance
Figuring out what good copyright looks like
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Nov 24, 2010
Being “good enough”
Forrester confuses “disruptive” and “sustaining” technologies
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Nov 22, 2010
Pirates at the gate?
The consequence of a bad API
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Nov 18, 2010
Coming of age
Things mobile, in the news
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Nov 4, 2010
Easy to be hard
Complex workflows are expensive and inflexible
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Nov 3, 2010
Brace for impact
Think e-books are tough? Try mobile.
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Nov 1, 2010
Rights and piracy
The consequence of a bad API
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Oct 27, 2010
Not so simply adjusting
Ebooks may be a format; digital is not
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Oct 21, 2010
Context first
A unified field theory of publishing
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Sep 2, 2010
Know your rights
Not just moving old wine to new bottles
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Aug 26, 2010
Challenges and opportunities
An interview about reshaping publishing
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Aug 13, 2010
Moral panics
Patry, copyright and piracy
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Aug 6, 2010
From mass to boutique
Print may decline, but it won't go away
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Aug 3, 2010
What’s the fuss?
A quarter of a million dollars, the easy way
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Jul 30, 2010
Dead Elvis
I should get up
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Jul 28, 2010
Making frenemies
The world’s largest non-imprint publisher is …
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Jul 26, 2010
It makes no sense
It makes perfect sense
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Jun 19, 2010
Preserving formats
An interim option, not a solution
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Jun 18, 2010
Another modest proposal
Decisions made without data are better labeled "guesswork"
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Jun 14, 2010
Strangers sharing content
... till there are no strangers anymore
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Jun 7, 2010
The walls we build up
An open letter to AG president Scott Turow
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Jun 4, 2010
A privilege to be objects
Inventing things before we know what they are for
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May 28, 2010
Lake Wobegon Daze
The industry doth protest too much, methinks
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May 26, 2010
Shrinking to grow
ABA membership is up, slightly
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May 25, 2010
A resounding “kinda”
Improving on reporting about piracy
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May 24, 2010
New gatekeepers
The reviewers who matter most
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