A number of big
publishers see a future with an unlimited textbook subscription plan.
Not exact matches
In an interview this week, Williams gave one of the clearest indications yet that he
sees the site's
future as being a content - agnostic hosting service for
publishers of all kinds.
«We are encouraging
publishers to
see the
future in electronic terms,» says Friend.
RR: It's been interesting to
see the
publishers» reaction to digital comics, with last year definitely being a watermark in the
future of digital comics.
Small
publishers are springing up everywhere, and I
see them as the
future of publishing.
In the
future I
see, indie authors and
publishers will co-exist and co-mingle along the publishing spectrum.
Rather than standing idly by as
publishers jeopardize their
future, some libraries
see an opportunity to take control by proactively cultivating a newer, more library - friendly source of ebooks.
You might eventually
see even more reading - enhancing features in the
future, as well — More interactive digital novel formats might be on the way, as Tech Radar points out that creative
publishers might soon begin to experiment further with the eBook format and its technological potentials.
As 2011 came to close and predictions were made for the
future of the publishing industry, several sources within the industry supported the idea that transmedia reading was going to
see huge gains in popularity this year as readers come to expect more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and
publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebooks.
I checked in with
publisher Robert McGuire about this, and he told me that they are testing to
see how GEN does on different platforms and that the prices may change in the
future — so download your free issues now!
Whether this is a gimmicky attempt to lure readers or the wave of the
future for digital publishing remains to be
seen, but as always, this kind of innovation has a strong foundation with romance readers and the
publishers who provide that content.
Whether the
publisher will begin its own direct - to - consumer button in the near
future remains to be
seen.
EPUB3 has basically failed, no one is using it, other than a format for online reading apps, but we certainly have not
seen the multimedia
future we were promised by textbook and digital
publishers.
In the
future, one can
see that the
publishers will want to tie up SOME income on these back catalog books so they get part of that long tail income.
I haven't tried a lot of other
publishers platforms, just because I'd rather not read digital versions of stuff I can get in book form, but I do like that digital offers a cheap alternative to titles that might not be feasible in a print format, and I'm curious to
see if more
publishers take that route in the
future.
Large
publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the
future of publishing lies in the hands of indie authors and small
publishers, and in the years ahead we'll
see more and more big - name authors go indie.
The Big Four
publishers failed to
see the
future of writing and ignored the voices of readers who wanted something different.
Fifty - seven per cent of listeners do so on their phones, and audio
publishers expect to
see future growth from voice - enabled speakers like Alexa.
For traditional
publishers, digital is sometimes
seen as a dystopian nightmare — but Alastair Horne examines some ideas from science fiction that offer the promise of a positive
future for publishing.
I think we'd both like to
see a
future in which books and ebooks can co-exist peacefully — and perhaps they will, but I worry that a scenario where we
see a race to lower ebook pricing could have a negative impact on
publishers» inclination to produce actual books.
Although it remains to be
seen whether an author or a
publisher with opinions or agendas that opose those of the media outlets will have a tougher time disseminating messages in the very near
future, inevitably, that is what will happen.
Some
publishers look at this model and
see it as the
future.
«Not too far in the
future, the author comes to the Pubslush site,» Ioannou says, «gets a checklist of the steps that the book needs; gets to choose an editor who has lots of experience with that kind of book or a young editor just starting out who will do the work more cheaply;
sees samples of the work of a lot of cover designers and picks one;
sees an array of
publishers who might be interested in publishing the book — or gets various options to self - publish; and gets help to pay for it all» with crowdfunding «or can just pay for it all on the spot if that option appeals more.»
The specificity of many comics to the medium of the printed book, and to particular dimensions, is one angle of critique of digital comics from creators such as Art Spiegelman (
see, Brian Heater, «Art Spiegelman and the
Future of the Book»,
Publisher's Weekly, 11 October 2011).
While the hybrid edition is still commonly
seen inside the Apple Newsstand from major
publishers such as Time Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst, etc., there is a growing opinion that the PDF replica is where the
future lies.
All other
publishers seemed to
see the
future as a threat, even other science fiction
publishers.
The problem isn't that
publishers don't intend for the book to succeed, but that they can no more
see the
future than anyone else.
Would it be fair to say that younger players are less focused on the need to discover «literary» talent, and more focused on fostering the aspiration of writers who read, write and enjoy genre fiction, while
publishers — especially ebook
publishers — recognise genre fiction's commerical possibilities and
see that as the profitable way of the
future?
We want to
see this rectified in a
future release, whether through negotiations with
publishers to allow text - to - speech to be used with their books, or through selecting dictionaries which don't have text - to - speech restrictions.
Like Nate stated, traditional
publishers do NOT want to
see e-books become the
future, because it makes their entire business model obsolete, sorta of like what is happening with newspapers.
For this Never thing to work for fiction
publishers the demographics have to be right, and I
see no evidence that the form, if we discount the odd phenomena of Fifty Shades (perhaps itself a pointer to a
future?)
I can
see the way of the
future will be ebook, but for me that's going to be an ebook published by a traditional
publisher who has filtered out all the other crap.
At some point in the
future, I do believe we'll
see an «Angry Birds of Comics» — one of those breakthrough apps that'll sell 10 million copies through Itunes — and it won't be a title from Marvel, DC, or any other
publisher for that matter.
As indies have smaller budgets than traditional
publishers, does this endanger the quality of cover art and illustration we're going to
see in the
future?
I'd hate to
see publishers make that same mistake — and I think agency pricing just encourages them to cling to the past instead of trying to adapt to the
future.
Publishers who fill out The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2014 survey will help us take stock of digital publishing in Canada, so we can all
see where it may be going in the
future.
I just hope that they will
see that that was a damaging negotiating tool and that if they have
future problems with
publishers they will find some other way to come to a solution.»
It is also too easy to fall into viewing the evolution in eBook and print sales solely through the prism of Amazon and its often public power struggle with
publishers, and to be drawn too deeply into
seeing the
future of publishing as one format versus another.
Rather than wait and
see how consumers react to it however, the French
publisher is already plotting for the franchise's
future.
Even though Cliff Bleszinski has been
seen making visits to many
publishers and studios since his departure from Epic Games, he has not confirmed what he plans to do for the foreseeable
future.
The front page of Rockin» Android's Rockin» Android currently has a poll asking visitors what genre of doujin games they would like to
see released stateside, clearly hinting at the
publisher's
future plans.
I may also integrate Mobile into this report in the
future so we can
see which console
publishers are finding success there.
While there were constant rumors that the game would
see its own release in the
future, the
publisher was quick to deny them.
CK: I'd love to
see NX become a platform that
publishers and developers can rely on, so they can invest and make great games on NX right now and so they can keep on making great games for in the
future.
Some suggested topics for
future dissertations that I would like to
see include a study of looseleaf publications — could their decline into disrepute have been avoided or delayed if the
publishers had not decided to increase the number of looseleaf releases to compensate for declining subscription lists?
For the
future, the
publishers see in research content the need to identify relationships among cross-jurisdictional sources combined with the full range of social and other media.
While at one level the
future for legal and professional publishing is
seen to be in the provision of transactional and workflow solutions, thereby driving
publishers towards the role of software providers, that view does not necessarily address the question of market segmentation.
Do I
see or hear the lawyers, legal technologists,
publishers and content managers on the TV, on the BBC world service or in the newspapers talking about this
future?
I can
see that big legal
publishers don't regard selling content to be the road to the
future, but I'm not
seeing much confidence for sale either.
Lately it seems that the Nintendo Switch is the best platform for indie developers to put their games on; let's just hope that we
see more positive news like this in the near
future as other
publishers continue to show their support.