IPNE Articles
Down the Rabbit Hole with the Espresso Book Machine - By Laura Fillmore, Open Book Systems and Protean Press, June 2010
A group of fifteen IPNE
members visited Harvard Book Store on June 4th, to witness the digital revolution
turn yesterday’s “gentleman’s business” of publishing into everyman’s global
printing press. The Espresso Book Machine (EBM), squired into reality
by Jason Epstein, inventor of the trade
paperback book in 1952, has the footprint of a large Xerox machine, featuring
online laptops on either end. It can produce a perfect-bound paperback book in
about 5 minutes, from download of PDF files to delivery of printed and bound
book out its “mouth,” literally hot off the press. More
ABA to BEA
and Beyond - By Laura Fillmore, Open Book Systems and Protean Press, June 2010
Back when BookExpo America
(BEA) was the American Booksellers Association (ABA) Convention
and Trade Exhibit, this was the biggest, most lavish book conference in the
country, where the publishers introduced their fall lists to the bookstores.
Filled with marketing hype, lavish parties by wholesalers and distributors like
Ingram and B&T, private hospitality suites for the big publishers to
celebrate headliners on their fall lists, the show travelled to a different
city each year. It’s been at the Javits in New York City for some years now, which is a
protean venue, shrinking or expanding to accommodate whatever size show comes
its way. This year was a fairly small show in comparison to earlier years.
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IBPA Publishing
University 2010 - by Perry Donham, KidPub Press, June 2010
Transformational.
If I were to choose a single word to describe the 2010 IBPA Publishing
University, it would be transformational. It was also
inspirational, educational, informative, and exhausting! Pub-U is two intense
days of everything publishing, and I couldn’t get enough of it. Read more
IPNE is Growing Fast, for Good Reasons -
by Steve Carlson, Upper Access, Inc. (May 2010)These are interesting times for publishers. Of course, “interesting” can describe everything from ancient curses to exciting new opportunities, all of which now seem plentiful. One positive trend is that independent publishers have learned that it is futile to try to compete with each other for market shareundefinedit makes far more sense to work together to increase overall readership. That’s where IPNE comes in.
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