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New on O'Reilly Labs: Open Feedback Publshing System

By Andrew Savikas
May 21, 2009

O'Reilly engineer Keith Fahlgren has formally launched our new Open Feedback Publishing System over on O'Reilly Labs: Over the last few years, traditional publishing has been moving closer to the...

Authoring Tools from Alpha Geeks

By Andrew Savikas
May 11, 2009

Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) has posted a nice article covering some of the tools he's built or borrowed to make his writing life more manageable. I'm especially intrigued by the Flashbake...

Calling All O'Reilly Authors--New Twitter Account Just for You

By Sara Peyton
February 18, 2009

Here at O'Reilly we're Twitter converts. Not that we've given up our Facebooking, blogging, emailing, and press releasing, but we're twittering, too. We encourage all our authors to join and participate in Twitter. And, at Tim O'Reilly's suggestion, we've also created a new Twitter group account just for O'Reilly authors. You can view it here--http://twitter.com/oreillyauthors--and find out what some of our authors are up to.

"None of this is good or bad; it just is"

By Mac Slocum
January 22, 2009

Lev Grossman takes a pragmatic look at the changing state of authors, readers, and the definition of publishing: Self-publishing has gone from being the last resort of the desperate...

Promising Glimpse of Thursday Night's Apple Store Panel

By Colleen Wheeler
January 6, 2009

The intelligent, engaged crowd at, a fabulous old-school bookstore Book Passage in Corte Madera (Marin County) got a preview Sunday of an upcoming Macworld event. Derrick Story moderated a panel of our digital imaging experts, Lisa Snider-King (Photoshop CS4 Missing Manual), Mikkel Aaland (Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure) and Deke McClelland (Adobe Photoshop One-on-One and Photoshop Channels & Masks One-on-One.) Hot...

Point-Counterpoint: Digital Book DRM, the Least Worst Solution

By Bill McCoy
November 24, 2008

In the second part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Bill McCoy examines two scenarios: a publishing industry that doesn't embrace interoperable DRM, and one that does.

Publishers Need to Get In on the Conversation

By Peter Brantley
November 19, 2008

Kassia Krozser has a Cluetrain-like manifesto for publishers. From Booksquare: It's time to get your hands dirty, to dig into the real-world conversation. It's a weird thing, and sometimes...

Change Always Leaves Someone Behind

By Mac Slocum
November 11, 2008

Seth Godin discusses the realities of digital change and free distribution in an interview with HarperStudio's The 26th Story: ... the market and the internet don't care if you make...

Report: Random House Shifts Ebook Royalties to Net Receipts

By Mac Slocum
October 29, 2008

Richard Curtis says Random House has announced a shift in its ebook royalties in a letter recently sent to literary agents. From E-Reads: Commencing December 1, 2008, the new royalty...

Reaction to Google Book Search Settlement

By Mac Slocum
October 28, 2008

Publishing experts, bloggers and interested parties are weighing in on the Google Book Search settlement. I'll be updating this post as new material comes in. If you see something...

Where's the IMDb for Books?

By Mac Slocum
October 26, 2008

Over on the TOC Community, David Henley expands on recent discussions around publisher and author brand building by drawing an interesting connection to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb): Not...

How Should Authors Promote Themselves Online?

By Kate Eltham
October 23, 2008

Publishers can lend a hand, but authors will be best served by leading their own online publicity projects.

Web Publicity Grows Up, Learns the Value of Conversation

By Mac Slocum
October 20, 2008

Web publicity works best when the audience is spoken with, not at.

Do Publisher Brands Still Have Relevance?

By Peter Brantley
October 3, 2008

Kate Eltham espies HarperStudio, asking whether they should have a separate Web portal/site, or just operate with a blog. She wonders: can a publisher drive a brand these days?...

Why You Should Care About XML

By Andrew Savikas
September 24, 2008

There are two places to look for useful clues about how XML will actually fit into a publisher's workflow: Web publishing and the "alpha geeks."

News Roundup: Digging Around Amazon's Topaz Format, Twitter Novels, June Ebook Sales Up 87% Over '07

By Mac Slocum
September 4, 2008

Digging Around Amazon's Topaz File Format Late Night Code is popping the hood on Topaz, that mysterious "other" file format used on the Kindle: Mobipocket files purchased from Amazon...

News Roundup: Amazon Acquires Shelfari, Hyper-Local Author Events, The Myth of the Level Digital Playing Field

By Mac Slocum
August 29, 2008

Amazon Acquires Shelfari Amazon is turning its investment in Shelfari, a book-centric social network, into a full acquisition, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Financial details haven't been released, but Shelfari CEO...

TOC Recommended Reading

By Mac Slocum
August 26, 2008

Transforming American Newspapers (Part 1) (Vin Crosby, Digital Deliverance) Contrary to myopia of many newspaper executives, advertisers aren't newspapers' primary customers. Although advertising revenues may be sunshine for newspaper executives,...

News Roundup: iPhone Apps Developer Shocked by Windfall, Author Reaps Rewards of Web Openness, Comcast Buys Web Publisher for $125 Million

By Mac Slocum
August 7, 2008

iPhone Apps Developer "Shell Shocked" by Outsized Payday Seth Weintraub over at 9to5Mac reports on the outsized success of at least one iPhone Apps developer, Eliza Block, who's now...

TOC Recommended Reading

By Mac Slocum
August 6, 2008

What's Really Killing Newspapers (Jack Shafer, Slate) Other institutions do far better jobs at issuing social currency these days. What is Facebook but the Federal Reserve Bank of social...

News Roundup: Digital Text App Uses Facebook, Subject/Author Sites Better than Brands, Saying Goodbye to Audiobook Cassettes

By Mac Slocum
July 31, 2008

App Mashes Up Digital Text on Facebook Platform Digital Texts 2.0 is an interesting application for Facebook that lets you group and share digital material. It's intriguing to see...

News Roundup: Sony Reader Now Supports EPUB, Esquire Using E Ink on September Cover, What Authors Can Learn from Silicon Valley

By Mac Slocum
July 24, 2008

Sony Reader Now Supports EPUB and Digital Editions The new firmware for the Sony Reader (model PRS-505) supports EPUB and Adobe Digital Editions. From MobileRead: I can now confirm...

News Roundup: New Kindles Rumored, Free Ebooks with Embedded Google Ads, Web Publicity and Giveaways Boost Author's Profile

By Mac Slocum
July 18, 2008

Rumor: Two New Kindles Coming This Fall Citing an inside source, CrunchGear says Amazon will release two new Kindles in time for the holiday season: The first is an updated...

Artist Brand Building: An Idea Born from Free Debate's Middle Ground

By Mac Slocum
July 7, 2008

Two analysts with opposing views of free models both see a way for traditional content companies to adapt: help creatives build their personal brands.

Attention all RIA Authors and Trainers

By Rich Tretola
June 30, 2008

My name is Rich Tretola and I have been the community manager for the InsideRIA site since its launch last year. I would like to try something new for InsideRIA and that is publishing some snippets of information that is...

O'Reilly Author and Editor Air Concerns on Industry Pressures

By Andy Oram
June 19, 2008

Andy Oram offers an open response to issues raised by Baron Schwartz, lead author of O'Reilly's "High Performance MySQL, Second Edition."

Author Notes Risks and Opportunities in Free Ebooks

By Mac Slocum
May 27, 2008

A post by Steven Poole looks at the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding free digital books.

How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a "Free" World?

By Mac Slocum
April 8, 2008

Kevin Kelly's eight generatives are a jumping-off point for author/publisher payment in a free system.

Survey of Publisher and Author Reaction to HarperCollins Move

By Mac Slocum
April 4, 2008

HarperCollins' new no-return/low-advance business is generating plenty of discussion. Kassia Krozser from BookSquare: If HC can pull this off, it will restore my faith in humanity. In a low-margin business, it just makes sense for everybody. And now that printing...

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