Category: Books



The reader interface
Feb 6, 2012—Let's make reading addictive » Read more…


Publishing conversations
Feb 5, 2012—A reason to start blogging » Read more…


Ripple effects
Feb 3, 2012—Missing the boat, or sinking it? » Read more…


Locked things …
Feb 1, 2012—... meant to be unlocked » Read more…


Starting conversations
Jan 31, 2012—Diversity can drive conference engagement » Read more…


Why pyramids?
Jan 30, 2012—"Think of them as an immense invitation" » Read more…


Stage two
Jan 28, 2012—Using PressBooks to write, edit and publish a book in parts » Read more…


Foster reading
Jan 25, 2012—What can publishers do better than Amazon? » Read more…


Harder by the day
Jan 24, 2012—What to do when all brands are publishers » Read more…


“We’ll be back”
Jan 23, 2012—Why SOPA will never be "over" » Read more…


How to fix copyright
Jan 20, 2012—"Facts are stubborn things" » Read more…


Life during wartime
Jan 19, 2012—"This ain't no party" » Read more…


A reader in every pot
Jan 14, 2012—Deciding how you want to read » Read more…


A nextPub opportunity
Jan 12, 2012—Streamlining the delivery of content » Read more…


Gateways to piracy
Jan 5, 2012—When "service" and "availability" are last » Read more…


This must be the place
Jan 4, 2012—On testing prices to maximize revenue » Read more…


Life plus 70
Jan 2, 2012—(Not) celebrating Public Domain Day » Read more…


Competing with pirates
Dec 28, 2011—Some advice for Lucía Etxebarria » Read more…


A holiday tale
Dec 19, 2011—'Twas the night before eBooks » Read more…


Know your rights
Dec 14, 2011—Building smaller-scale rights engines » Read more…


A seat at the table
Dec 13, 2011—Of baseball contracts and libraries » Read more…


Beyond container myopia
Nov 14, 2011—Creating the engine of the engagement economy » Read more…


Not pretty enough
Nov 11, 2011—Everybody wants to rule the world » Read more…


The opportunity in abundance
Oct 31, 2011—Let's put our heads together » Read more…


Streaming #BiB11
Oct 27, 2011—Links to the 2011 Internet Archive conference » Read more…


Don’t bank on scarcity
Oct 19, 2011—Lessons learned from a prophet of abundance » Read more…


“Context first” round-up
Oct 9, 2011—For a TOC panel, links to previously published material » Read more…


Thinking about tomorrow
Jun 27, 2011—A reason to start over new » Read more…


Amberizing glasses
Jun 20, 2011—The dizzy spiral of goodbye » Read more…


Growing digital exports
Jun 17, 2011—A new research paper offers some best practices » Read more…


Here to stay
Jun 16, 2011—Part 3 of a Quill & Quire interview » Read more…


A business case for context
Jun 15, 2011—Part 2 of a Quill & Quire interview » Read more…


Context vs. container
Jun 14, 2011—Part 1 of a Quill & Quire interview » Read more…


Thing four
Jun 13, 2011—Provide readers with tools that help manage abundance » Read more…


Thing three
Jun 12, 2011—Develop opportunities to encourage broader content use » Read more…


Thing two
Jun 11, 2011—Use context to promote discovery » Read more…


Thing one
Jun 10, 2011—Content must become open, accessible and interoperable » Read more…


Mobile reading resources
May 18, 2011—An updated bibliography » Read more…


Other interpretations
May 17, 2011—What anecdata show and don't tell » Read more…


My six-word memoir
May 16, 2011—And now for something completely different » Read more…


A useful discussion
May 12, 2011—Joe Esposito thinks about 'brand, context and containers' » Read more…


Tablets “vs” e-readers
May 10, 2011—Why content availability must be "either-and" » Read more…


One shot
May 9, 2011—Mobile, "heralding a new era of commerce" » Read more…


Follow the …
May 5, 2011—Explaining the impact of piracy starts with data » Read more…


At 30 knots …
May 3, 2011—The sonar of fighting piracy » Read more…


The cost of disruption
May 2, 2011—Will digital reading “wreck” publishing? » Read more…


Another object lesson
May 1, 2011—Publishing gets to rethink the reader experience » Read more…


Object lesson
Apr 30, 2011—A picture of what "new skills" implies » Read more…


Want to fight piracy?
Apr 29, 2011—Try being truly open and interoperable » Read more…


The sixth secret
Apr 26, 2011—On Twitter, visibility cuts both ways » Read more…


Squeezed out?
Apr 21, 2011—Making nice with my frenemies just got harder » Read more…


Pursuing “either-and”
Apr 19, 2011—Making a business case for new publishing workflows » Read more…


Wing of madness
Apr 18, 2011—(Not yet) dedicated to a transformation » Read more…


Show me the data!
Apr 15, 2011—The convening power of social reading platforms » Read more…


A promising discussion
Apr 14, 2011—BISG leads a conversation about publishing in 2020 » Read more…


Rules of the game
Apr 13, 2011—How publishers work becomes how they compete » Read more…


How would you know?
Apr 12, 2011—If piracy is a business expense, let's measure it » Read more…


Try and stop us
Apr 11, 2011—Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak ... » Read more…


Duarte on presentations
Apr 1, 2011—An agent for change interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo » Read more…


Content abundance
Mar 1, 2011—Precursor to the development of context » Read more…


Devils and dust
Feb 25, 2011—Fear’s a powerful thing » Read more…


Collaborative ideation
Feb 22, 2011—A story behind a story » Read more…


“Context first”, revisited
Feb 21, 2011—A second pass at a unified field theory of publishing » Read more…


Container myopia
Jan 26, 2011—Looking for answers, not books » Read more…


Don’t frustrate demand
Jan 25, 2011—Small things matter » Read more…


Overcoming obstacles
Jan 20, 2011—Getting out of my chair » Read more…


A man for others
Jan 17, 2011—"A ministry of showing up" » Read more…


On the Radar
Jan 11, 2011—What I've learned studying piracy » Read more…


What hath NPR wrought?
Jan 10, 2011—A social reading case history » Read more…


A new kind of hello
Jan 6, 2011—A borrower and a lender be » Read more…


Deer in headlights
Dec 31, 2010—At the end of being proud » Read more…


Transparency trumps piracy
Dec 14, 2010—Leaks matter less when we have fewer secrets » Read more…


Three hits
Dec 8, 2010—We lay covered in our best sins » Read more…


Revisiting ‘curation nation’
Dec 3, 2010—Fostering communities on the Wordpress platform » Read more…


All about balance
Nov 25, 2010—Figuring out what good copyright looks like » Read more…


Being “good enough”
Nov 24, 2010—Forrester confuses “disruptive” and “sustaining” technologies » Read more…


Pirates at the gate?
Nov 22, 2010—The consequence of a bad API » Read more…


Coming of age
Nov 18, 2010—Things mobile, in the news » Read more…


Easy to be hard
Nov 4, 2010—Complex workflows are expensive and inflexible » Read more…


Brace for impact
Nov 3, 2010—Think e-books are tough? Try mobile. » Read more…


Rights and piracy
Nov 1, 2010—The consequence of a bad API » Read more…


Not so simply adjusting
Oct 27, 2010—Ebooks may be a format; digital is not » Read more…


Context first
Oct 21, 2010—A unified field theory of publishing » Read more…


Know your rights
Sep 2, 2010—Not just moving old wine to new bottles » Read more…


Challenges and opportunities
Aug 26, 2010—An interview about reshaping publishing » Read more…


Moral panics
Aug 13, 2010—Patry, copyright and piracy » Read more…


From mass to boutique
Aug 6, 2010—Print may decline, but it won't go away » Read more…


What’s the fuss?
Aug 3, 2010—A quarter of a million dollars, the easy way » Read more…


Dead Elvis
Jul 30, 2010—I should get up » Read more…


Making frenemies
Jul 28, 2010—The world’s largest non-imprint publisher is … » Read more…


It makes no sense
Jul 26, 2010—It makes perfect sense » Read more…


Preserving formats
Jun 19, 2010—An interim option, not a solution » Read more…


Another modest proposal
Jun 18, 2010—Decisions made without data are better labeled "guesswork" » Read more…


Strangers sharing content
Jun 14, 2010—... till there are no strangers anymore » Read more…


The walls we build up
Jun 7, 2010—An open letter to AG president Scott Turow » Read more…


A privilege to be objects
Jun 4, 2010—Inventing things before we know what they are for » Read more…


Lake Wobegon Daze
May 28, 2010—The industry doth protest too much, methinks » Read more…


Shrinking to grow
May 26, 2010—ABA membership is up, slightly » Read more…


A resounding “kinda”
May 25, 2010—Improving on reporting about piracy » Read more…


New gatekeepers
May 24, 2010—The reviewers who matter most » Read more…