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The Pub Call #16 — The Handy in Frankfurt Episode

mb — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:56:07 +0000

This week The Pub Call crew welcomes Kirk Biglione from MediaLoper.com and Andrew Savikas from O’Reilly Media.

Our three topics are:

The Sony surge
Tools of Change Conference at the Frankfurt Bookfair.
The book app economy

Download the mp3 of The Pub Call Episode #16 or download the enhanced iTunes version (m4a).

Here are links to some of the other things we talk about in episode #16 of The Pub Call podcast:

Book publishing at South by South West (SxSW).
David Levithan
Debbie Stier
Beyond Publishing: When Every Book is Connected to Everyone panel with Stephanie Troeth, Book Oven (Hugh McGuire, Peter Brantley, Andrew Savikas, Kassia Krozser)
A Brave New Future for Book Publishing panel with Kevin Smokler, CEO BookTour.com (and a cast of geniuses)
Dinosaurs Dancing: Digital Experiments From Traditional Book Publishers: Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks and Michael Cader, Publishers Lunch
Clint Greenleaf
Two new devices from Sony at new prices
Sony’s ePub Announcement
Om Mallick Calls Sony’s Move a Win For Adobe
Sony’s Library promotion with OverDrive
Speculation about Sony Reader with Wireless on August 25th, 2009
Tools Of Change Meets Frankfurt
O’Reilly TOC Conference 2010 Call for Participation

Publishing Perspectives
Hannah Johnson and Edward Nawotka
Funny Thing Happened on Way to Kindle by Nathan Bransford of Curtis Brown
Scroll Motion
Andrew Savikas: The App Store and The Long Tail Part 1 and Part 2
CourseSmart Launches iPhone app
Twitter: “pointless babble” or peripheral awareness + social grooming? by Danah Boyd
Happy Friday Book Lovers by HarperStudio
Nicholson Baker on the Kindle at the NewYorker
Yup, It’s Him: A Pynchon Mystery Solved at the Speakeasy Blog at WSJ
Stats & Research on Mobile Use Around the World
iBird Explorer Backyard is the bird app in iphone commerical that I think Andrew was talking about. (like Shazam)
The Eleven Axioms of 21st Century Book Publishing by Mike Cane at ebooktest.blogspot.com

Mark didn’t make any mistakes this week, which is a first in 16 episodes but if you have feedback send us an email at feedback(->at->)pubcall.com or leave a comment. Thanks for your time.

The music featured in The Pub Call show is by The Jive Ass Sleepers.

The Pub Call #15 — The Mavericky Episode

mb — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:05:08 +0000

Our three topics for the week ending July 28, 2009 were the Romance Writers of America conference, Amazon, and Richard Nash’s blueprint for a new type of publisher.

What we talked about in The Pub Call Episode #15:

The RWA Conference Recap [booksquare]
Amazon Buys Zappos [techcrunch]
Bezos, 1984 and The Kindle [BoingBoing]
Teens Don’t Care If They Own Digital Files [Guardian]
Barnes and Noble Launch Ebook store [bn.com] [Booksquare]
Barnes and Noble Wifi [bn.com]
Richard Nash on his new venture – Cursor – that aims to create a social publishing community [Publishers Weekly] [RNash.com] [Publishing Perspectives] [Media Bistro]
Apple and the record Companies want you to buy albums, again. [Financial Times]
Will Tolkien’s heirs kill off “The Hobbit”? [salon.com]
When you buy Zappos, what do you buy? [sethgodin]
The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles [wired.com]
Transparency is the new objectivity [everythingismiscellaneous.com]
The Future is Now: Ann Kingman and Michael Kindness [FollowtheReader]

Download the mp3 of The Pub Call Episode #15 or download the enhanced iTunes version (m4a).

Errata: Mark is really articulate this episode. Is it Bee-zos or Bay-zos? He will never be sure. Pynchon’s new novel is called “Inherent Vice” and Publishing perspectives is the blog where Richard’s essay appeared.

For any other feedback send us an email at feedback(->at->)pubcall.com or leave a comment. Thanks for your time.

The music featured in The Pub Call show is by The Jive Ass Sleepers.

The Pub Call #14 — Romance Book Geekery

mb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:26:58 +0000

On the call this week we talk about The Romance Writers Annual conference, ebook scheduling, and the open publishing distribution system. Special guest this week is Liza Daly from ThreePress.org. She is the creator of ePubZenGarden and the Bookworm ebook reader. The following are links to content discussed:

Romance Writers of America Annual Conference in Washington DC
The Bat Segundo Show #296 at edrants.com featuring the SmartBitches book Beyond Heaving Bosoms
A New World: Scheduling E-Books at The New York Times
Kindle’s $9.99 Books May Shrink Publishers’ Profits at Bloomberg.com
Publisher Delays E-Book Amid Debate on Pricing at wsj.com
Open Publication Distribution System at Google Code
Streaming Kills Piracy at avc.com
Pimp My Novel at pimpmynovel.blogspot.com
The Revenge of Print at brooklynrail.org
Star Wars Uncut (Recreating Star Wars: A New Hope)
The Glue ToolBar from adaptive Blue at GetGlue.com

The music featured on the show is by the Jive Ass Sleepers. The track is called Private Eye. You can listen to the entire album at Magnatune.

FollowUp: Dominique Raccah from SourceBooks wrote a post on ebook scheduling at Booksquare.com. Check it out.

Download the mp3 of The Pub Call Episode #14 or download the enhanced iTunes version (m4a).

The sound wasn’t great this episode. Apologies. For any other feedback send us an email at feedback(->at->)pubcall.com or leave a comment. Thanks for your time.

The Pub Call #13 — Getting Over the Hump

mb — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:15:42 +0000

The show notes for episode #13 of The Pub Call podcast were originally posted at INDEXmb.com. They have been reposted below:

Download the mp3 of The Pub Call Episode #13 or download the enhanced iTunes version (m4a).