In 2011, I was commissioned by Media Futures to research and produce what became the Future of Publishing report. I include an excerpt from it here. To download the full report from Media Futures, click here. Shaping the Future Articles, reports, and conferences on the future of publishing are increasingly common; genuinely useful insights into…
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Publishing within a particle accelerator: the ePublishing Innovation Forum 2011
Though at the time this didn’t seem one of the more interesting conferences, I attended, in retrospect it raises a couple of interesting points. The suggestion that ebooks might hit 50% of total sales by 2016 now looks perhaps a little unlikely (though the same suggestion had been made by Victoria Barnsley at Frankfurt the…
A Visit from the Goon Squad
I’m including this review partly out of a desire for completism, but partly because I wonder whether a publisher would consider developing such an app for a novel now, even for an experimental yet popular novel like this one. Evan Schnittmann’s claim a few months earlier that the enhanced ebook was dead has mostly come…
The future’s bright, the future’s mobile (2011 London Book Fair Digital Conference part II)
Looking back on this report from the afternoon sessions of the 2011 London Book Fair digital conference, what strikes me is that though mobile has proved as important as we expected, nobody’s really taken advantage of the fact that the mobile phone companies, like Apple and Amazon, already have customer credit card details, and so…
What can other industries teach us about digital? (2011 London Book Fair Digital Conference Part I)
In 2011, publishing was still looking nervously towards other industries for advice, as evidenced by the number of speakers at the 2011 London Book Fair digital conference drawn from the music and video industries. It was also the year of Evan Schnittmann’s controversial, if ultimately mostly accurate, assertion that the enhanced ebook was dead. the…
