Episode 104 – Jim Dovey

Special Guest

• Jim Dovey Digital Content Format Evangelist at Kobo.

News

• Google Play on Nook HD & HD+
• Microsoft buying Nook?
• Courier acquires FastPencil
• Hachette selling to libraries again
• The end of O’Reilly TOC
• Creative Suite going subscription only
• InDesign now allows exporting a linked index, but might have other issues.
• Tor/Forge reports no major increase in piracy after DRM-Free 9 months
• CourseSmart Crashes during Exam Week.

Topic

• Readium Project

Feedback

• Michael Grossman

Random Tweet of the Week

• @ufomagazine: #eprdctn Hitler learns about Adobe’s new Creative Cloud model.: http://t.co/B9X9SSvVXW via @youtube

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Episode 103

Special Guest

• Apologies to Andrys Basten, who we’ll have on in the future.

News

• Reader Rocket
• DPLA
• Self-published best sellers
• Amazon Originals
• HarperCollins Launches New Effort to Promote Enhanced eBooks
• eBooks belong in the browser
• Firefox OS phone sell out
• Brooklyn Public Library & S&S
• 8” color e-ink reader in Russia
• Kindle TV?

Feedback

• Tom Semple
• Yvonne Goshorn

Random Tweet of the Week

• @laurab7: A few #eprdctn types are converging on http://www.cedardooraustin.com/ on Sunday night at #pepcon. Please feel free to join us!

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Episode 102

News

• New Windows 8 tablet specs
• ReDigi against the law
• Amazon beta-testing cover generation
• Books on Board shuts down, says they are trying to re-launch with a new business model.
• Indie bookstore sales of Kobo eBooks dwarf Google, but are still small.
• PUBIt! being replaced by NOOKPress
  also http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/04/09/nook-press-wont-let-users-edit-previously-published-ebooks
• What readers want from front & backmatter
• Will Jay-Z take over books next?
• Kobo Aura
• Amazon Appstore expands

Feedback

• Howard Cornett
• Jonathan Oglesby

Random Tweet of the Week

• @horse_ebooks: I was terrified! I spent 3 days at the library trying to figure out what I was expected to say! The challenge is that in
• @fakebaldur: In other news, RMSDK and Kindle iOS are both awful ebook rendering engines

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Episode 101

News

• Readium SDK announced
• Amazon in talks with Samsung over Liquivista
• Amazon buys Goodreads
  http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/28/amazon-acquires-book-based-social-network-goodreads/
  http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/413-exciting-news-about-goodreads-we-re-joining-the-amazon-family
  http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2013/03/28/big-coup-for-kindle-amazon-to-acquire-goodreads/
• Kindle Touch is back on sale
• Kindle Fire now supports audio & video
• Kobo devices
• B&N giving away Nook Simple Touches
• B&N staring down S&S
• Bookboard & paid subscription for children’s books
• Penguin to allow libraries to buy and loan new releases
• Ebooks to be covered by Arizona privacy law

Feedback

• Howard Cornett
• Dave Gerlits
• Tre Grisby
• Michael Grossman

Random Tweet of the Week

• (none)

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Episode 100

News

• Supreme Court rules against Wiley in first sale case
• Kobo’s work w/ ABA partnership
• Judge fast-tracks bookseller lawsuit against Amazon
• Amazon’s Little a imprint
• Amazon releases Send to Kindle for websites.
• Google ebook/game crossover
• Online now largest book market
• Publishing Industry Next Chapter
• eBook biz around analytics
• Piracy and DRM
  • Is it worth spending half of your profits “fighting Piracy”?
  • EA CEO gets fired right after DRM kerfuffle
  • JManga shutting down, customer files with
  • S&S to share piracy data with authors

Feedback

• Howard Cornett
• Tom Semple
• Marina Braverman

Random Tweet of the Week

• @TomMcCluskey: @LauraB7 @BookDesignGirl I think I’m going to take out my frsutrations on virtual zombies, personally. And maybe leftover whiskey #eprdctn

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Episode 99 – Susan Ruszala

Special Guest

• Susan Ruszala, President of NetGalley

News

• Vanity publishing and the problems associated with it…
  • Lulu now working with Author Solutions
  • Simon & Schuster offers Author House services through its Archway imprint, now trying to get self-publishing affiliates.
  • Autharium (UK) has a very bad contract.
  • Random House accused of ‘predatory’ contracts for new eBook imprint
    • Hydra changes contract terms
• Another sign B&N is not really competing with Amazon
• Txtr Beagle to sell for $69
• Kindle Fire 8.9” HD price drop & worldwide distribution
• WebBytez
• AAP Objects to Amazon’s Application for Closed .Book Domain
• Who is trying to get the .book domain name
• Google Reader to shut down.

Feedback

• Tom Semple

Random Tweet of the Week

• @rossmonstr: CAN WE ALL TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE MY MOTHER USING A KINDLE AS A BOOKMARK instagr.am/p/WxGDicmT9b/

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Episode 98 – Tim Cooper

Special Guest

• Tim Cooper of Consulting Garage

News

• Amazon SNAFUs an iOS update
• ebooks are selling well
• Wiley Cuts
• B&N really splitting?
• Book Review aggregation
• New ereader coming out in Germany
• iBooks updated to 3.1. More support for Asian languages, cites iBookstore Japan
• One year in, Google Play store has over 5M ebooks and 18M songs
• ComiXology Self-Publishing Portal

Feedback

• Tom Semple

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Episode 97

News

• Amazon & pubs being sued by indie bookstores in NY
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/drm-lawsuit-independent-bookstores-amazon_n_2727519.html
  http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/02/20/indie-bookstores-file-anti-trust-lawsuit-against-amazon-big-6-pubishers
  Cory Doctorow’s take on it
• Yotaphone to launch in Russia
• Kindle Pub Tools 2.8
• Macmillan decides to quit the DOJ case. Apple still in
• Apple patents a new book search toolbar
• This is a great trick, but I love Nate’s reaction:
• DOJ approves Penguin/Random House merger
• Inkling Habitat now free to use
• B&N CEO Len Riggio has filed SEC paperwork to split off the 689 B&N stores and take them private, apart from the Nook and B&N College businesses
• Amazon cutting back on how many free eBooks their Associates can link to

Feedback

• Howard Cornett
• Tom Semple

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• @lizcastro: +1 RT @lemay: Hell is other people controlling your CSS. #eprdctn

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Episode 96 – Fran Toolan

Guest

• Fran Toolan of Firebrand Technologies

News

• Why no, the latest Paperwhite update did NOT fix the image bug.
• Kindle iOS update:
  Multicolor highlights
  Book end actions – when done with a book, Tweet or FB it, write a review, see other recommendations
  brightness stays constant
• Readmill is released
• Libraries appear to be getting gouged
• eBooks to libraries by law?
• Kobo does preordering
• Bookish launches
• Paperwhite going global
• O’Reilly starts producing Epub3
• Amazon patents re-selling used goods
• Subway station in Bucharest sells ebooks

Discussion

• TOC
• Firebrand + eBook Architects

Random Tweet of the Week

• @sandersk: Updated version of my free ebook HTML5 for Publishers available now, with new chaps on MathML & SVG. Download here: oreil.ly/Vmdjfm
• also online: chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000770

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Episode 95

News

• How was DBW, anyway?
• Piracy studies and thoughts
  http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/does-piracy-hurt-digital-content-sales-yes/
  http://www.magellanmediapartners.com/index.php/mmcp/article/market_failures#When:11:00:11Z
• 54% of kids in the US now read eBooks
• Random House’s Infographic
• First bookless public library coming
• Triton 2 frontlit
• Amazon looking to buy the Liquavista? (electrowetting screen tech).
  http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/01/21/amazon-is-going-to-buy-liquavista/
  http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/01/22/a-close-look-at-liquavistas-latest-electrowetting-screen-tech-video
• Samsung OLEDs
• Kobo claims 20% of global ereader market
• Cybook Odessy review
• Kindle Paperwhite gets an update
• Kindles now available in Canada

Feedback

• Tom Semple
• Allison Morris, state of printers: http://www.educationnews.org/technology/never-print-again/

Random Tweet of the Week

• MT: @eBookNoir: very nice… i’d like one day to see ability to animate icon on bookshelf, talk abt a visual enticement then.. #eprdctn

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