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A Summary of Last Week’s Digital Book World Conference

Constellation — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:14:34 +0000

Download a summary of last week’s Digital Book World conference, compiled by the Perseus Books Group staff that attended and made available to you by Constellation Connect. This is a detailed, 26-page information-packed summary of the conference and a great tool for keeping up on the current state of the digital publishing world.

Digital Book World: New Retail Channels, The Library e-Book Wars and Bundling

Constellation — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:19:52 +0000

The last day of this year’s Digital Book World wrapped up with a panel of publishers pondering (and fretting about) sometimes estranged relationships with their authors, a look at efforts to create a new retail channels for book content…

NBC Publishing Wants to Prove a TV Company Can Make Better E-Books

Constellation — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:16:44 +0000

NBC News, a Comcast-owned media empire NBC Universal, is launching a new venture, NBC Publishing, to produce electronic and print books under the NBC brand…

Trendspotting 2012: Rick Joyce

Constellation — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:29:55 +0000

Congratulations, U.S. trade publishers – you have successfully surfed the Conversion Wave. Can publishers now relax? Nope—the next wave is already here: Digital Discovery, and it promises to offer similar disruptions, costs and opportunities…

Perseus Inks Composition Pact with Typéfi Systems

Constellation — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:21:58 +0000

The Perseus Book Group has reached an agreement with Typéfi Systems to implement the Typéfi Publish System, an automated composition technology that allows both print and e-pub versions of a book to be easily formatted with XML.