Chris Webb

Of Wine and Bullhorns – Social Media for Authors and Publishers

Full credit for the idea behind both the headline and content of this post is owed to (soon to be) Wiley Author Chris Brogan. This week I attended Chris’s Social Media For Publishers webinar presented by O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) which was packed full of really good advice for not only publishers, but authors [...]

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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, [...]

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O’Reilly Forges Ahead with New E-Content Initiative

Tim has announced O’Reilly is now offering books on a per chapter basis. That is you can buy an entire e-book, or just the chapter(s) you want, and it appears they will be rolling it out across their entire catalog. Tim likens this development to the music industry shift away from albums and [...]

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