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.
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