Friday, May 11, 2012

Let’s Improvise! Jazz as a Metaphor for Publishing Progress

News from Publishing Perspectives:


Jazz provides an apt analogy for the new agile workflows in publishing and the need for different departments to improvise in concert on a final outcome. 

The print book business is compared to the buggy whip business at the dawn of the automobile, but were buggy whips ever a $120 billion a year global industry? 
A Buenos Aires Book Fair survey names the 50 publishing professionals whose actions have had the strongest impact on their colleagues over the last years. Read more »

iDoLVine is the evolution of Margaret Atwood's Long Pen, which allows authors to sign books remotely, and is expanding the technology throughout the entertainment world. 

Can a virtual signing replace the experience of standing in line, waiting your turn, and exchanging 30 seconds of repartee with a real live author? Perhaps not. Read more »

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