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Mon, 18/03/2013 - 16:22Digital rights management is the elephant in the boardroom for all publishers; some in the industry argue that a strict DRM policy—which limits what a reader can do with a digital book once they’ve bought it—is playing into the hands of Amazon (whose users are locked into its Kindle platform) and sending out the wrong...
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Tue, 11/12/2012 - 11:17Publishers have to change before the books they sell do, according to a discussion on “The future publisher” at FutureBook 2012.
Author and consultant Will McInnes said: “It’s not the thing that has to change, it’s the organisation. If that manages to change then the product will change with it.”...
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Fri, 07/12/2012 - 09:00Strong differences have emerged within the trade over the effectiveness of Digital Rights Management (DRM) on e-book files.
The issue came to the fore as divided views were voiced on DRM at this week's FutureBook Conference (3rd December). Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie, who is also president of the...
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Tue, 04/12/2012 - 09:30Leading publishing figures stressed the importance of becoming more outward looking and consumer focused at the plenary session of The Bookseller's Futurebook Conference, held in London yesterday (3rd December). However Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula Mackenzie and Pottermore c.e.o. Charlie Redmayne expressed starkly opposed views on...
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Mon, 03/12/2012 - 14:51Publishers have "done a lot right" and are standing in a much stronger position in the digital market compared with three years ago, Pottermore c.e.o. Charlie Redmayne told delegates at The Bookseller's FutureBook 2012 Conference in London this morning (3rd December).
In a keynote speech, Redmayne said there had...
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Tue, 27/11/2012 - 10:45Charlie Redmayne has been in the top job at Pottermore for a year now, casting numerous multimedia spells along the way to enchant its 40 million-strong fanbase.
Leaving his role as HarperCollins’ chief digital officer in November 2011 (Redmayne was brought in to spearhead the publisher’s digital transformation), he has...
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Tue, 27/11/2012 - 10:45Charlie Redmayne has been in the top job at Pottermore for a year now, casting numerous multimedia spells along the way to enchant its 40 million-strong fanbase.
Leaving his role as HarperCollins’ chief digital officer in November 2011 (Redmayne was brought in to spearhead the publisher’s digital transformation), he has...
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Tue, 09/10/2012 - 09:44Pottermore is to work with other brands, helping them identify digital strategies, with Charlie Redmayne chief executive indicating that the Harry Potter offshoot was already working with one other brand.
Speaking at the pre-Frankfurt digital conference Publishers Launch yesterday (8th October), Redmayne said that he was...
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Tue, 31/07/2012 - 07:00Pottermore has made the e-book editions of J K Rowling's Harry Potter series available in Japanese, with a Japanese version of the Pottermore online experience to be launched at a future date to be announced.
The Japanese editions are published in EPUB3 format, and can be read on any compatible device, with Japanese font enabled...
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Mon, 16/04/2012 - 09:20Getting to the consumer, getting the right content to that consumer, and then making this consumer pay for that content: these were the main concerns raised at Digital Minds, the London Book Fair's digital conference, held on Sunday (15th April) ahead of the show.
Jim Griffin, m.d. of OneHouse, was the first keynote, setting out...
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