quality

A Publishing Seal of Approval, a step toward standarization

Sep 11 2011

A Publishing Seal of Approval, a step toward standarization

A couple of days ago, I received an email with a press release announcing a joint venture of sorts to bring a Publishing Seal of Approval to digital books.   The seal will be called QED and it is owned by Digital Book World, a division of F&W Media.  Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Kobo(…)

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Feb 16 2010

Tuesday Midday Links: Crowd Based Patronage

This is a quite hilarious ad by Verizon mocking AT&T’s pathetic coverage (I am an AT&T customer via my move to the iPhone). Watch until the end. Guardian asks whether crowdsourcing author advances is legitimate. Deanna Zandt wanted to write a book on using social networking for social change and action, specializing in often marginalised(…)

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Dec 8 2009

Backlist Title Dilemma

[poll id="213"] I was emailing with a friend of mine over two backlist titles from authors whose recent work we both enjoyed tremendously.   The backlist titles were such poor quality compared to the recent works and I thought that had I read those backlist titles, I would never have wanted to pick up the recent(…)

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Jun 15 2009

Quality of e Published Books

[poll id="176"] One of the greatest challenges facing digital publishing today is the perception gap.   That is to say, there is a perceived gap in quality between books published in e form and books published in print by the NY houses. I suffer from the perception gap myself which isn’t helped when I come across(…)

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