New Study Group A new group, Enhanced Digital Book Study Group, commenced operation Saturday after the BAIPA meeting. The group decided to keep in touch via a Facebook page soon to be set up. You can join by sending an email request to Joe … [Read more...]
First eBook Library Built in U.S.
From Joseph T. Sinclair -- The first exclusively ebook library has been built near San Antonio, Texas. http://publishingperspectives.com/2014/01/a-visit-to-bibliotech-the-21st-century-all-digital-library/?et_mid=657236&rid=240370013 The cost … [Read more...]
The Astounding New Market for English-Language Books
By Joseph T. Sinclair How many English readers are there in the world? There’s no telling. But there are estimates of how many people can speak English as either a first or second language. David Crystal, a British linguist, estimates that … [Read more...]
Independent Bookstores
By Joseph T. Sinclair The news in 2013 was that independent bookstores are making a comeback. The question is, what are we talking about? A book, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap, published by St. Martins Griffin, gives us an inkling of what … [Read more...]
Writing by Voice
By Joseph T. Sinclair About ten years ago I investigated voice recognition software, which I found to be surprisingly accurate but not accurate enough to be useful for writing a book by voice (dictating). Nonetheless, I wrote a short book by voice … [Read more...]
Digital Book World Daily
If you're interested in keeping up on digital publishing, a good way to do it is to subscribe to the DBW Daily, delivered by email each day. It captures the latest relevant news. DBW stands for Digital Book World, which is an annual digital book … [Read more...]
Book Apps
By Joseph T. Sinclair Apps (applications) are programs that run on a smart phone. They are typically dedicated to a specific and narrow purpose. For instance, an app might do nothing more than condense 10 steps on the Web into one tap on the phone … [Read more...]
The Professional Author of the Future
By Joseph T. Sinclair First, let’s define “professional author” as one whose primary income is derived from writing. There is always a bumper crop of part-time and wannabe writers who maintain the God-ordained right to be “pure” writers with … [Read more...]
The Book App — Part II
By Joseph T. Sinclair In a prior article entitled The Book App, I reported that Kindle Fire has outsold iPads. I remembered that incorrectly from the statistics, and I should have reported out-polled. The source I read had reported not sales but the … [Read more...]
The Book App
By Joseph T. Sinclair The author of The Mobile Wave, Michael Saylor, states that five billion people out of seven billion worldwide now have cell phones. Soon the one billion people who now have smart phones will be five billion people as cheap … [Read more...]