http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook eBook Industry News and Events for the Digital Publisher Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:59:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en March 6, 2008 - Toronto: Book Net Canada hosts its Publishing Technology Forum 2008: Harnessing Digital Opportunity. Speakers include; Mark Wilson, O'Reilly Media Digital content allows almost instant access to information that internet-users demand. But in the age when albums give way to single songs, how can book http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/20/26/  The Universal PDFSM solution from codeMantra allows publishers to have one fully-compliant file created for nine of the leading electronic book distributors, as well as for several additional electronic content aggregators. http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/17/codemantra-universal-pdf-format/ A number of publishers offer web browsers the opportunity to read a sample selection from a book online, often via a PDF file. Amazon, is copying the features available in its online Search Inside functionality by allowing Kindle readers to read selections from available titles at no cost. If the reader http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/16/kindle-sample-chapters/ What is a digital asset distributor? Mike Shatzkin of Idea Logical presents a succint summary of what  services a DAD provides. What is a DAD - Digital Asset Distributor http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/14/what-is-a-dad/ TidBits, a line of PDF books offered by O'Reilly is another example of repackaging content to maximize revenue. Only available as a PDF file and priced at $10 to $15. Each Tidbits book has 100 to 200 pages. http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/14/tidbits/ Amazon shorts are 10 to 14 page articles in Adobe Acrobat PDF format priced at $0.49. The publisher incurs no expense for printing or shipping the publication, as its a 100% digitial product. You can take a book, extract a few pages and repackage it as an Amazon Short if you wish. If the ... http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/14/amazon-shorts/ Taking a journal online can be a duanting task. This Ingenta case study highlights the process that the Journal of Marine Research when through to take their journal online. http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/13/taking-a-journal-online-journal-of-marine-research/ The key to maximizing revenue with Digital assets is to think not of eBooks, but to think of content repackaging. You don't want to limit yourself to the traditional book format. How can your assets be packaged and sold? Do not become fixated on marketing a book. Think of what your customers ... http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/13/digital-asset-marketing/ NEW YORK – February 12, 2008 – At the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., today announced the availability of its next-generation eCompile Service, a technology enhancement to the LibreDigital Internet Warehouse for Publishers that empowers forward-thinking publishers to provide consumers with book ... http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/13/libredigital-brings-book-%e2%80%9cmash-ups%e2%80%9d-to-publishing-world/ Jan 04, 2008. Continuum International Publishing Group announced the appointment of codeMantra as provider of digital conversion and distribution services. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd is an academic and trade publisher specialising in Humanities and Social Science subjects. It publishes about 500 new books each year and has a backlist of around ... http://www.booktoebook.com/ebook/2008/02/13/codemantra-selected-by-continuum-international/