The morning session at thisyear’s Digital Book 2011, theInternational DigitalPublishing Forum’s annualconerence, held inconjunction with BookExpoAmerica, was highlighted byKobo v-p Michael Tamblyn’sannouncement o a new $130e-ink touchscreen readingdevice coming rom Kobo inJune. The audience at thepacked event was alsotreated to a smart and mildlycontentious discussion between the panelists on thepublishers’ round table—Dominique Raccah, EvanSchnittman, and RichardNash—as they surveyed theirown experiences grapplingwith the changes sweepingover an industry in transitionto digital delivery.But it should be no surprisethat the scope o the morningsessions included the growtho e-book sales; theprolieration o devices toread them; enhancede-books; apps; and theviability o placing advertisingin them both. Copyright in thedigital age, o course, and theparallel growth o sel-publishing and the relevanceo legacy book publishers inthis new era were alsodiscussed.Tamblyn’s announcemento Kobo’s new device—a blackand white e-ink touchscreenavailable at anunprecedented price point—was a vivid ollow-up to apresentation he madesurveying the recentexplosive growth o e-booksales in general and thestaying power o e-ink devicesin particular.The publishers round tableeatured a big publisher(Macmillan/Bloomsbury’sSchnittman); a midsizepublisher (Sourcebooks’Raccah); and a small indiepress (Cursor/RedLemonade’s Nash), oeringperspectives on the growth o digital delivery rom eachparticular viewpoint. Andwhile Raccah and Schnittmantended to agree—althoughnot on every issue—it shouldcome as no surprise thatNash generally disagreedwith them both. Raccah citedmarket shares or dierentkinds o print books (adulttrade, 42%; kids’ books, 25%)and said it seemed unlikelythat e-books could overtakethose igures; Schnittmanseemed to agree. Nashacknowledged that he didn’thave “the data,” but urged theaudience not to be swayed by“projections” aimed at avolatile, dynamic, and ast-changing e-book market thatis also characterized byalling prices. And whileRaccah and Schnittman bothoered pessimisticassessments on the uture o enhanced e-books (“We’veessentially created enhancedDVDs and we can’t sell them,”Schnittman said) and evenapps, Nash suggested thatenhanced e-books were moreabout preserving high pricepoints than adding value.But Raccah wasn’t havingit. “We didn’t do this to savepricing,” she said. “We did itto blow up the book as weknow it. It’s exciting, but westill haven’t ound a goodmechanism to do it. We’restill working on it.”
IPDF Digital Book 2011:The Year of the E-book
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