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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 10th

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What percentage of books today are being sold by Amazon and online retailers? PW: I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head, but I know that it more than tripled in a year in terms of our share. Well, we have a very small

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 6)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 9th

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting! Assembling your own books – how are you doing that? What is the workflow for a teacher to assembling his or her own book? PW: This for us is very new. What we do is have a consultant come in and work with teachers to

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Wilcox, CIO of HMH Publishing (Part 5)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 8th

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: I see. That actually gives me a good segway into one of the most important discussions in your industry today, or at least the way the greater technology world hears about your industry, which is the movement of textbooks to e-books and the rise of the

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Re-engineering the Book Business: Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jul 16th

I have written a few pieces on how the book publishing business needs to / is going to change because of the web. [Book Publishing Moves West? . Will the Digital Era Change Writing? . eBooks Future]. In this interview, I speak with Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb, who is attempting to democratize self-publishing by

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eBooks Future

Posted on Friday, Jan 12th

Harper Collins announces an investment in NewsStand this week to enhance its digital efforts. This draws attention of book lovers and passionate readers to the future of Books. Some of the more successful book projects recently have been the blockbuster Harry Potter series and the Da Vinci Code franchise, as well as the literary successes

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