The first thing to
understand about digital publishing is what devices people use to consume digital content, including what types of publications each device class can support, how people use the devices, and where ereading hardware is headed.
Not exact matches
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Independent publishers like Faber & Faber and Canongate, both of whom I spend time talking to
about the impact of
digital publishing (though not for money), are trying hard to remain relevant, and initiatives like the new electronic
publishing service, Faber Factory, are a sign that they
understand the changing market.
But, after she left the podium (to widespread applause), what likely lingered in many minds is the candid picture she'd painted of one of
publishing's growing
digital nightmares: debut authors may be
understanding about the slow process to market and put up with it, said Smart, «but as they build reader communities around them they will get really, really pissed off and go and self -
publish.»
BIBF also
understands the need of educating domestic publishers
about the best practices in
digital publishing from around the world.
In most cases, traditionally
published authors seem to feel pretty positive
about publishing houses, but hybrid authors feel publishers move too slowly, don't
understand digital publishing, and don't offer enough money.
And more and more, what I seem to see in newcomers to writing — which tempts them to
publish too quickly because
digital has made that possible — is a real lack of
understanding of how much they may need to have the kind of guidance you're talking
about.