18 tweets | 4 @tweets
18 tweets | 4 @tweets
ngintaka: With Frommer's, Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor on our Weds panel, wondering what people want to learn most abt travel publishing at #toc.
ngintaka: Cory Doctorow at #toc: DRM is *always* broken. Benefits key manufacturers not prorety owners.
ngintaka: Doctorow's challenge: publishers should decide themselves if/when to implement DRM not be dictated to by platform owners. #toc
ngintaka: What sustains the publishing ecosystem is audience not technology. #toc
: RT: @ngintaka: What sustains the publishing ecosystem is audience not technology. #toc
ngintaka: Fillmore's ecosystem model presupposes a 'work' at the center. Isn't the 'work' an outdated concept? #toc
ngintaka: Gillmore's 360 model places a 'work' at the center bit isn't a 'work' becoming an outmoded concept? #toc
: @ngintaka i agree. i felt like i was in conference at my old place of work - biz at center does not a happy customer make! #TOC
ngintaka: Ebook pricing session: assumes demand is inelastic in relation to price. Seems unecessarily pessimistic given app store experience. #toc
ngintaka: Ebooks v apps: check out Frommer's for Kindle v Frommer's iPhone app. #toc
ngintaka: Russ Wilcox: "the container matters". Publishers should support hifi reading technologies because more valuable. #toc
ngintaka: Peter Bramley nailed it: Think beyond the iPhone. Mobile can connect the real world to all the resources of the network. #toc
ngintaka: Publishing sawdust? No thanks. Would rather publish with purpose. Readers deserve more respect. #toc
ngintaka: Lexcycle: 0.1% of downloads have been paid titles. #toc
: RT @ngintaka: "Lexcycle: 0.1% of downloads have been paid titles." That's because the paid ones are $10 a pop. #toc
ngintaka: @eykd So by my calcs = $50k revenue. Question is whether there's any demand elasticity? Would they sell >10x at $1? #toc
: @ngintaka: I guess we won't know until we try. I can buy a paperback for $7, and it Just Works. I'm buying the paperback for now. #toc
ngintaka: Tim O'Reilly: "we're in a race with the future". The future is winning! #toc
ngintaka: Tim O'Reilly: if we reinvent literacy but are swept away in the process... we'll find other things to do. #toc
ngintaka: Lulu: trust as a key differentiator online. #toc
ngintaka: Tim O'Reilly: book as a "souvenir of a shared experience". a "badge of acknowledgment". #toc
ngintaka: @joebachana Good practice. I leave out the date/place but emphasize collaboration between author/ilustrator. #toc