The company is mainly responsible for promoting and the
development of electronic publishing applications and products that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems, and consumers.
Choose an e-reader that supports a wide
range of electronic publishing formats and you'll be able to draw from a nearly endless supply of free publications via public libraries and other sources.
The way forward would seems clear to me: The International Digital Publishing Forum is «the global trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and
promotion of electronic publishing and content consumption.»
Starting on last Thursday evening and running for three days, novelist Scott William Carter and I led a discussion with a little over thirty well - published professional writers on the reasons, the art, and the
promise of both electronic publishing and -LSB-...]
Then back in the gold rush
days of electronic publishing in 2009 - 2011, I stopped traditional publishing and did everything myself (except copyediting).
So I read the article and just shuddered because the well - written article by this agent made it clear to me that the agent problem in writing isn't going away with the
increase of electronic publishing.
«It's an exciting time in the
evolution of electronic publishing to be devoting my energies to the mission of the IDPF,» said Michael Smith, Executive Director of the IDPF.
This huge extra profit was a gift to publishers back a few years by writers and really, really stupid agents who allowed a writer's
share of electronic publishing to move from 50 % of cover to 25 % of net.
In an interview with Mark Coker from Smashwords, Poynter described how he had fully embraced changing technologies in recent years and that he was a
supporter of electronic publishing.
Purveyors of digital superiority, including enthusiasts within the
field of electronic publishing, have made great efforts to not just duplicate the mediums of the physical world, but exceed them.
In the book world, especially in the
realm of electronic publishing, metadata is the information that describes your book: the cover image, the name of the book, the price, the number of pages, the word count, your ISBN, your name, the format, the back cover copy, and any other relative aspect of your book that would help describe the title to readers.
The
arrival of electronic publishing has changed the rules of the game so completely that conventional publishers must regard it as an entirely new game, to which their former successes don't even entitle them to a bleacher seat, much less the role of first - string quarterback.
The consulting contract entitles authors or publishers to conference calls (phone or Skype), emails, etc., answering whatever questions you have; whatever advice you require, full marketing and / or business plans, etc — in short, you get one of the
creators of the electronic publishing market «on staff», to pick his brain, as much as you want, specific to your needs, for the entire period of the contract.
The comments above by Simon C. about Prof. Ziegel's conference papers is well taken; given the
ease of electronic publishing, these should be put online; we often received requests for past conference papers where the print version had gone missing or was not added to the library's collection.
«The IDPF is dedicated to the development and
promotion of electronic publishing and content consumption and we are grateful to have innovative teams like the one at NOOK to help the industry move forward.»
The project explored what constitutes a publication, peer review, citation, privacy, intellectual property rights, and integrity and authentication of material and archiving in an
age of electronic publishing.
Starting on last Thursday evening and running for three days, novelist Scott William Carter and I led a discussion with a little over thirty well - published professional writers on the reasons, the art, and the
promise of both electronic publishing and POD (print on demand) publishing for fiction writers.
If there's one truth I've found in the new
world of electronic publishing, it's that the primary task once the book or collection is written is promotion.
Book sales rose 6.2 % last year in the U.S., thanks to the continued
growth of electronic publishing, according to newly released StatShot data from the Assn. of American Publishers.
Let me start with Amanda, since you're following a path that has been established even before the
advent of electronic publishing, namely self - publishing, building great success, and then having a traditional publisher acquire rights either to the self - published titles or to future works.
I love reading books in bed, in the bath, in the hammock, on a boat, and despite my enthusiam for the
concept of electronic publishing I still haven't made the leap to an e-reader.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is the global trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion
of electronic publishing and content consumption.
Many publishing experts believe that the Harry Potter ebook franchise really could revolutionize the world
of electronic publishing.
The IDPF Digital Book 2012 is put on by the International Digital Publishing Forum, «the global trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion
of electronic publishing and content consumption.»