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Digital Book World
The United States has been at the forefront of digital publishing since the field's inception. And now, as digital is fully integrated into our daily publishing lives and the industry continues to expand the format of books and data analytics, the U.S. market continues to lead.
While there has been a lull as e-book sales level out and digital startups and initiatives falter, this year has nevertheless seen the reimagining of some of publishing's earliest digital innovators to adapt to the changing face of the industry.
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FutureBook
Is it me, or you?
This morning, The Bookseller reported that Waterstones was taking Kindle devices off most of its shelves due to "pitiful" sales.
No great surprise here: the chain's managing director James Daunt said after Christmas 2014 that device sales, once strong, had tapered off, a reflection of a digital market that has moved beyond its adoption-period.
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GWA
Join fellow Garden Writers for a networking breakfast and a press preview of a new show at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Timothy Rub, the Director of the Museum, and Mark D. Mitchell, Exhibition Organizer, will introduce attendees to Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life. GWA members will be escorted into the show for a tour of the exhibition before it opens to the public.
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GWA
The GWA Symposium Program Committee is accepting presentation proposals from speakers for the 2016 symposium to be held Sept. 16-19 — Atlanta. Proposals are due by Dec. 1.
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GWA
The GWA Foundation annually grants students in horticulture and journalism special scholarships for college, university and community college participation. Scholarship information may be found on the GWA website under the GWA Foundation tab. The application deadline for the 2016 spring term ends Dec. 1. If you know a qualified student who needs financial assistance, let them know about this valuable program TODAY!
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GWA
Help grow our association and receive a $15 credit on your dues. Get six new members, and your next year is free. For information and support materials, including our new membership brochure, visit:
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GWA
Brighter Blooms Nursery is looking for writers who have recently visited arboretums or botanical gardens and would like to write about their experience. For information, visit the GWA Jobs page.
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Nieman Lab
Twitter has always been a place to find out what's going on in the world, with a little help from the crowd. The catch is that you have to know the right people to follow if you want to track the path of a hurricane or question this year's selection of Emmy winners. Twitter hopes to make the platform more welcoming to newcomers with the launch of "Moments." It offers curated tweets tied to news and other events.
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Publishing Perspectives
When the digital revolution in publishing began, publishers moved quickly to digitize their content in order to take advantage of this new, growing audience. But, in most cases, the text and layout of print books were merely digitized — what some call "print-under-glass.”"At the time, it was enough that publishers had to create multiple formats for the different e-book vendors.
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The Huffington Post
Last week, the book industry released figures showing that e-book sales were down so far this year — the first time they have declined — while print remained relatively steady. When the news broke, we published a piece on 10 reasons e-books are better than print.
In the interest of fairness, we now offer a list for the other side: a 10-point case for print.
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Fortune
Every few weeks, it seems, another media outlet kills off its reader comments, saying they are filled with trolls and spam and/or they are too much effort to maintain. This week it's Vice's tech site Motherboard, which claims that it has replaced comments with something better — namely, a selection of emailed letters to the editor, which editor-in-chief Derek Mead says will be published once a week "or thereabouts."
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The Telegraph
In his new book, "Power of Reading," the sociologist Frank Furedi talks about "the Gutenberg Parenthesis." This is the idea that the age of the book was, in fact, a 500-year blip; that, thanks to the internet, we're moving from a written culture back toward an oral one.
It's the academic version of an argument you often hear. No one buys books. No one reads books — in print, anyway.
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