Future Roles of Book Publishers
Paul Watson has written an essay entitled The Future for Publishers in which he suggests new roles publishers will play in content promotion, distribution, and ultimately how we may be generating revenues in the future. The basis of his argument is that content, of course, will be free and that publishers must take on new [...]
No Starch Tries No Cost with Free Apple e-books via Bittorrent
Many publishers are struggling with the idea of free content, and how it fits into their traditional business strategy. Square peg, round hole - the model needs to change, but that’s another post. When it comes to electronic content, the issue of DRM arises as well - how do you protect your IP [...]
And For Our Next Trick - Introducing Wrox’s ASP3Wiki
Recently we launched Wrox Blox, our bite-sized e-content products for programmers. Today we continue with new e-content initiatives and have announced our partnership with Near-Time to produce a new line of wiki-based products.
The first of these new products is ASP3Wiki, and is best summarized by this post on Jim Mintel’s blog.
Wrox’s ASP3Wiki is the complete [...]
Long Tail’s Chris Anderson on “Free” at O’Reilly TOC
Jeff Gomez, writing at one of my favorite and thought-provoking e-content blogs Print Is Dead, has a great article covering Chris Anderson’s speech at the O’Reilly TOC conference entitled “FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero.”
Anderson discusses several ways he and his publisher are considering making aspects of his upcoming book free, [...]
