Lessons on Digital Publishing Businesses from TOC Frankfurt
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This document discusses several digital publishing technologies and companies, including Bookshout and Zola Books. Bookshout allows users to import their legally purchased titles and connect through book clubs. Zola Books focuses on recommendation and curation to connect publishers and customers. The document also discusses altmetrics and semantic web technologies that can provide insights through metadata, analysis, and connecting related concepts and texts.
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- 1. Digital Done Right or NOT! #DigitalPubDoneRight
- 2. So much informationfind RELEVANCE Retail Technology Bookshout Zola Books Data Altmetrics / Semantic web Theory Ingram Metadata / Linked data
- 3. Bookshout.the nerve to go up against the big guys Do not piss off this guy! iTunes (inheritance argument) Bookshout allows for import of your legal titles Discovery aided by the social aspect of Bookclubs True BYOD (iOS, iBooks coming soon)
- 4. Bookshout, freeing your content
- 5. Zola Booksexploration not search Recommendation / curation Shop front All Publishers can connect to Customer to serve related content Social Connection to Authors Real time sharing Retail model Bookstore partners get 60%
- 6. Altmetrics Eugene Garfield, the gran-daddy Metadata Semantic web Insight-driven decision making
- 7. Insight Next level of extraction Analysis to operational-isation More targetted behavior influence
- 8. Process
- 9. Analysis
- 10. Semantic Web Sentiment gauge Arab spring example V for vendetta and symbols
- 11. Occupy Movement
- 12. Clickstream for Science Journals
- 13. The Story Verse
- 14. Semantic web / Little Demons and the StoryVerse Take, for example, Las Vegas. The book that instantly springs to mind, Fear and Loathing But the city has been featured in hundreds of titles from Don DeLillos Underworld , David Foster Wallaces Infinite Jest to Chuck Klostermans Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs & David Carrs The Night of the Gun. Valla Vakili thinks it interesting that Cocoa Puffs connected Klosterman to Jodi Picoults Handle With Care. I didnt care when you ate all the Cocoa Puffs so that I had to have Frosted Mini- Wheats as a snack after school. All that mattered was that at 4:30 p.m. I was getting my braces off, after thirty-four months, two weeks, and six days. See? (And dont get me started on the role Frosted Mini-Wheats play in Stephen Kings Duma Key.)
- 16. Q?
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- #3: So much information, so many theories and business models on how to develop the book publishing and retailing industry. New technologies and devices are often unveiled here. All is being driven by increasing Customer knowledge being gained by data collection on Customer behavior etc. Great deal of overlap but end result is a greater understanding of Customers / readers and thus gaining the potential of real-time insight in book supply.
- #4: We collect content in our lives, why cannot not be legally ceded, transferred etcfine print. Clever guys charging you a lotta money for something you will never own (evil laugh) really unfair.
- #5: In a conversation with TechNewsdaily, BookShout! CEO Jason Illian compared the current closed e-book ecosystems to having to buy new music every time you get a new stereo. Illian said publishers are behind his efforts to unlock e-books. He believes his system is legal and will stand up to any challenges from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.
- #7: Pagerank from citations/indexing Sergei Brin / Larry Page Eugene Garfield (information salesman, librarian, bioArmy National Medical Library days)
- #11: Egyptian women wearing anonymous
- #12: Anonymous on Wall St. 1% owns the world and the rest of us are serfs.
- #13: One leads to another
- #15: And so when V for Vendetta was out, it led to a serious shortage of ..masks