overt Stealth Press forecast
Roy Smith, vice president of Marketing at
Stealth Press:”Our expectations are that e-books will ultimately occupy a market share equivalent to audio books (roughly 5 percent),” he says. “The fact is that recreational reading does not work off of a screen (handheld or desktop). E-books are perfect for technical or reference works that need to be constantly updated. While we agree that the publishing industry is in need of a major overhaul, we do not agree that the ‘container’ of the literature is the problem.” from
“E-Books: Boom or Bust”
FotB hands off store items to UICB
Bookbinding kit revenues will now be directed to the benefit of the University of Iowa Center for the Book. A new and expanded kit line is in development.
FotB is power vacuume
The first 25 hits from a Google search for Future of the Codex Book came back FotB.
weblogs unite!
Piss on them both; both the USA and the Taliban they are both locked in some stupid struggle. Its time to do a new nation with folks that can manage themselves and information er, librarianbloggers.
“Our values, in practice, are not “freedom” and “self-determination” as some would believe, these supposed values are really a lifestyle, bought and paid for, in part, by our self-serving foreign policy.” Craig