Craig Riggs makes a great point at the end of this video. If publishers don’t provide content the way readers want it, some other industry will. Riggs was in town for the Booknet Canada Technology Forum 2009 where he delivered a keynote on the current state of book distribution in Canada. His report was simple [...]
One of my co-bookcampTO-conspirators — Hugh McGuire — gave a great speech at BookNet Canada’s Technology Forum 2009. He talked about time and love. Book publishers need to enable readers to express how much they love authors and books. Readers love to love books. Publishers need to honour the time readers invest. I told Hugh [...]
I caught up with Susan Danziger of DailyLit.com during cocktail hour at the Booknet Technology Forum 2009. I had first heard of DailyLit way back when Kevin Rose talked about his experience with it on Diggnation episode #79. That was in January 2007. I asked Susan how she managed to introduce an unconventional ereading concept [...]
I caught-up with O’Reilly Media’s Andrew Savikas at this year’s BookNet Canada Technology Forum 2009. We talked briefly about the importance of “Fail Forward Faster.” Book publishers need to experiment. Andrew was kind enough to let me record his thoughts on experimentation. The bit from Peter Drucker is pretty good.