Episode 74 – Baldur Bjarnason

Special Guest

• Baldur Bjarnason

News

• Front-lit Kindle is coming
• Apple tried to have class-action lawsuit dismissed, judge says “no”
• Interesting information coming into view on the Apple/agency model class action suit
• More info also on the DOJ case
• Verizon fighting Wiley over the release of user data in eBook piracy case
• Amazon Customer reviews as good as professional reviews
• Interesting take on the future from Peter Brantley

Feedback

• Michael
• Patrick Crowley

Random Tweet

• @ePubPupil: I think I’ve recovered from graduation and family. Need to get a good frame for my degree.
• Congrats, Iris!!!

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Episode 73

News

• Series of articles based on academic research showing a different story about file sharing than what you hear from the RIAA, MPAA, etc.
• Should editors certify that an eBook has been edited?
• All 7 Harry Potter books coming to the Kindle Owners Lending Library on June 19th.
• http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/10/harry-potter-kindle-owners-lending-library/
• Color Kindle rumors
• Fire update
• Readium displays Apple FL… sort of
• Indexing script for InDesign

Feedback

• Howard Cornett
• Tom Semple: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/business/after-warning-amazon-about-sales-tactics-target-will-stop-selling-kindles.html
• Will Brown
• Johnna Hershey
• Mike C – 738 x 985

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• @jtallent: @ebookarchitects is hiring an eBook Developer and an Assistant Project Manager. See here for details: http://ebookarchitects.com/about/employment.php #eprdctn
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Episode 72

News

• Target to remove all Kindles from sale, citing “conflict of interest”.
• Possibly due to plans for 25 Apple mini-stores inside Target stores?
• Microsoft joining forces with B&N.
• Why eBooks will soon be obsolete. I don’t agree with everything, or with the conclusion, but some of these points are important.
• End of ebook development
• Question of simplicity:
  http://www.baitnbeer.com/content/search-simpler-solutions
  http://ljndawson.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/simplicity/
• Laura Dawson says that maybe Amazon will be seen as the good guy in the end.
• May 4th is International Day against DRM.

Feedback

• Andy Culbertson

Random Tweet

• @DigiBookWorld Nearly 100% of publishers have seen e-booksellers get their metadata wrong #mip12 #eprdctn bit.ly/KtoQNq

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Episode 71 – Author Education with Jeff Moriarty

Guest

• Jeff Moriarty of http://epublishunum.com/

News

• Kindle Touch now supports KF8 (not FL)
  other enhancements
• Send to Kindle for Mac available
• Tor/Forge to go DRM-Free
• Mobileread wiki turned 6 (nice reminder about eprdctn.org)
• College Professors say students need print texts to succeed
• Larry Kirshbaum talks about how Amazon Publishing will work
• All the News that Bashes Amazon
• Some more positive articles about the DOJ and Amazon’s place in it all. You can read the negative ones anywhere. These positive ones are hard to come by.
  http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/cbs-joe-konrath-barry-eisler-on-doj-anti-trust-and-authors-guild-response

Author Education

1. Writing
2. Editing
3. Publishing
4. Promoting
5. Interacting

Learn more at http://epublishunum.com/going-digital/what-is-digital-publishing/

Feedback

• Michael Grossman
• Keni

Random Tweet

• @eBookWizz: #eprdctn, I always thought the newspapers in Harry Potter movies were magic but now I realize they were just EPUBs

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Episode 70 – Metadata with Laura Dawson

Guest

• Laura Dawson

News

• Google Books end retail partner program
• New Nook lights up
• Antitrust suit is filed

  http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/justice-files-suit-against-apple-and-publishers-over-e-book-pricing/

  http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/doj-files-suit-against-apple-and-5-publishers

• Interesting analysis
• Big Six publishers apparently not happy about new Amazon terms, may not renew contracts

  http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/big-six-publishers-decline-to-renew-contract-with-amazon-over-unfavorable-terms
  http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/10/big-six-publishers-refuse-to-sign-new-contracts-with-amazon/

Topic

• Metadata

Feedback

• Quentin Fottrell
• Tom Semple
• Scott Johns
• Tre’ Grisby

Random Tweet

• @pablod: No company is ‘good’ or ‘evil.’ We (self included) need to put the overblown rhetoric away—it’s counterproductive.

  @pablod: Having Greedo shoot first, though—that *is* evil. Just sayin’

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Episode 69 – Welcome Back Joshua

News

• Kindle for iOS updated to 3.0
• We can no longer say that fixed-layout is not epub 3
• And samples, for those of you with an epub 3 reader
• Wow, the possibility of fake reviews on Amazon. Who knew.
• Kindle Fire gets an update
• F+W charges head first into the subscription model
• Harris Poll shows eReader use still growing. 28% of U.S. adults use an eReader.
• Peter Brantley talks about the Agency Model and how things are looking.
• “People Familiar With The Matter” say the Justice Department is in settlement talks with Apple and the big five publishers on agency pricing.
• PayPal caves to pressure and allows selling of erotica content.
• Encyclopedia Britannica stops printing. It’s Okay. Really.
• Joe Wikert talks about how rough around the edges the Nook platform is.
• Amazon released an update to KindleGen that allows the use of display:none in Mobipocket CSS.
• Pottermore finally releases Harry Potter eBooks.
• And… pirated…
• Random House and Pearson say that eBook sales have resulted in higher profits due to fewer returns and other cost savings.

Feedback

• Jan Wright
• Tre’ Grisby

Random Tweet

• @cezes: Como dicen los eBookNinjas: los libros no se convierten automáticamente. Añado: code is poetry + años de corrección de pruebas.
  (Google translate version: As eBookNinjas say: books are not automatically converted. Add: code is poetry + years of proofreading.)
• @BNGOBooks: @cdcasey print doesn’t glow in the dark, either….#eprdctn

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Episode 68 – Indexing with Jan Wright

Special Guest

• Jan Wright

News

• Random House raises wholesale prices to libraries (ALA says please don’t do that)
• OverDrive buys Book.ish
• Amazon to publish non-exclusive ebooks
• Fire & Nook Tablets succeed at expense of einks
• Fire has 33% of tablet ad traffic
• Amazon patents annotations
• There’s a new iPad
• DOJ threatens lawsuit against Apple, Big 5

State of the Index

• Combining indexes for discovery and sales; Joe Wikert on Uber indexes
• IDPF EPUB working group formed
• Amazon XRay feature vs. indexes
• Peter Meyers on indexes
• LinkedIn group about ebook indexing
• American Society for Indexing page about eBook indexing

Feedback

• Ann-Marie: Pepcon code NINJA will save you $$$
• Andy Culbertson

Random Tweet

• @fakebaldur: I expect ereader vendors to treat ebook developers at least as well as the browser vendors treat web developers. Is that too much to ask?

Joshua’s speaking events

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Ninjas gatherings at SXSW!

• Lunch on 3/9 at Madras Pavilion
• Drinks on 3/11 with Len Edgerly from The Kindle Chronicles at 8:30pm at the Gingerman

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Episode 67 – eBook Valuation with Peter Meyers supplement

Special Guest

• Peter Meyers

Joshua’s speaking events

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Ninjas gatherings at SXSW!

• Lunch on 3/9 at Madras Pavilion
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Episode 67 – eBook Valuation with Peter Meyers

Special Guest

• Peter Meyers

News

• Kindle coming to Japan
• Nook Simple Touch hacked, refresh rates improved
• PayPal forces Smashwords to remove erotica titles
• Interesting juxtaposition
  https://twitter.com/#!/jasonashlock/status/174168933287464960/photo/1
  http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ebook-sales-up-but-slower-net-book-sales-fall
• Amazon KDP select reaches 100,000 titles
• Evo Terra’s author’s guide to SXSW
• Javascript in eBooks???
• Air Force cancels iPad electronic flight book program because GoodReader is made in Russia.
• The Oatmeal comic sparks a fight about digital sales, piracy, and availability

eBook Valuation and the Future of Bookshelves

• Listen to the episode 67 supplement!

Feedback

• Tom Semple
• Michael Grossman
• Anne Marie Concepcion

Random Tweet

• @EstradaAgency: Chillin’ w/the @eBookNinjas in Austin, TX! Live n’ @ebookarchitects studios, it’s im·mac·u·late & reminds me of Toyoko Disney! eBook Experts

Joshua’s speaking events

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• Lunch on 3/9 at Madras Pavilion
• Drinks on 3/11 with Len Edgerly from The Kindle Chronicles at some bar in downtown Austin (probably at the Gingerman)

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Episode 66 – Digital Marketing with Iris Blasi

Special Guest

• Iris Blasi

News

• Nook tablet: 8GB 512KB RAM $199
• iBooks opens epub3 files
• OpenRoad responds to Harper Collins
• Amazon boycott: B&N, Books-A-Million, Indigo, American Bookseller’s Association
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/indigo-joins-growing-boycott-of-books-published-by-amazoncom/article2326088/
  http://paidcontent.org/article/419-books-a-million-wont-carry-amazon-titles-either/
  http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/50551-aba-s-indiecommerce-site-dropping-amazon-publishing-titles.html
• Librarian gets blasted for re-publishing books with Amazon.
• Amazon removes IPG titles
• Penguin Group terminating its contract with Overdrive.
• Readium announced. Open Source engine for displaying ePubs. Wonder if any companies will actually use it…
• eBooks Can’t Burn. A great editorial on the value of eBooks as literature.

Digital Marketing

• http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/social-media-the-art-of-the-nudge/
• Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, An Amazon author page, Tumblr, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, Klout, Instagram, Spotify, Pinterest

Feedback

• Tom Semple
• Mecha via Google Translate
• Lauren

Random Tweet

• @mrmullin: I’m very excited to announce that I’m joining Barnes & Noble’s Digital Content team, starting in March.

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