It's All About Digital Publishing
The news this week focused on digital publishing. People have been raving and complaining about Amazon's new Kindle reader.
"Wired" magazine reports strong and compelling competition for the Kindle in the new Plastic Logic, a reader that features a touchtone screen, such as is found on the i-Phone. At the Tools of Change for Publishing 2009 convention speakers found equal number of Kindle devotees in the audience as those owning Sony Readers. And yet another e-book reader was endorsed this week, Bookworm,
All this at the same time as reports of the apparently increasing downward spiral of traditional publishing command what seem to be daily headlines.Digital publishing means publishing content in such a way that the creation, production, and delivery of books never involve the printed page. So the emphasis is on the content. More and more, because of the growth in both the utilization and capabilities of the Internet, readers expect content to be available to them without much effort and in a form they can quickly and easily retrieve. The content can be delivered in the form of e-books or print-on-demand books. Both are offspring of the age of digital publishing.
The enormous expansion of the social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and My Space, provides a great opportunity for authors who wish to self-publish and for companies offering self-publishing and subsidy publishing services to communicate with vast numbers of people interested in the topics their books address. The vitality of the self-publishing industry is linked to the growth of digital publishing. And this technology is just beginning to hit its stride.
"Wired" magazine reports strong and compelling competition for the Kindle in the new Plastic Logic, a reader that features a touchtone screen, such as is found on the i-Phone. At the Tools of Change for Publishing 2009 convention speakers found equal number of Kindle devotees in the audience as those owning Sony Readers. And yet another e-book reader was endorsed this week, Bookworm,
All this at the same time as reports of the apparently increasing downward spiral of traditional publishing command what seem to be daily headlines.Digital publishing means publishing content in such a way that the creation, production, and delivery of books never involve the printed page. So the emphasis is on the content. More and more, because of the growth in both the utilization and capabilities of the Internet, readers expect content to be available to them without much effort and in a form they can quickly and easily retrieve. The content can be delivered in the form of e-books or print-on-demand books. Both are offspring of the age of digital publishing.
The enormous expansion of the social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and My Space, provides a great opportunity for authors who wish to self-publish and for companies offering self-publishing and subsidy publishing services to communicate with vast numbers of people interested in the topics their books address. The vitality of the self-publishing industry is linked to the growth of digital publishing. And this technology is just beginning to hit its stride.
Posted by Elizabeth House at 2/15/2009 11:25 PM 
Categories: Self publishing,Print on demand,Book publishng industry,Niche marketing
Categories: Self publishing,Print on demand,Book publishng industry,Niche marketing
So how does this digital publishing favour Authors; I really don't understand how you get paid when everyone can read for free on the net.please do elaborate.
thanks
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Authors still receive earnings, or royalties, when e-books are purchased. Authors can examine portions of books for free, just as they would be able to browse through printed books in a bookstore.
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I think I do a fairly good job keeping up with the affects of new technology on established conventions like publishing. But recently it seems the entire CONCEPT of publishers printing money-making authors on paper is dissolving before our eyes. If I were young again, I'd watch this situation day to day, with constant monitoring. Somehow somebody is going to figure out a way to publishing authors in a completely new and unexpected way, that everyone will say about, "Of course!" It's exciting! The garbage is already sliding off the walls where desperate publishers have thrown it, hoping something will stick. We may be reading a paragraph of "MOBY DICK" off soap bars as they dissolve or something . . . .
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I believe that digital publishing is being taken to a whole new level with services such as that provided by eMagCreator. To be more environmentally friendly and cost efficient, one can publish their magazines, books, brochures, catalogs etc. on the web. The eMags have the look and feel of real books, but they are digital. I think it something everyone should consider with the economy the way it is.
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