Co-Author of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Interview Starts at 17:38 The book has always been, in terms of its ideas, a highly connected media property, highly intertextual, referring to ideas in society, other wo

Executive Editor of CNET Interview Starts at 23:20 I still think that the E Ink eReaders are still more popular than people think, but there's just not a whole lot of excitement around them any more, and I actually don't think there's a whole lot of ex

Co-founder and CEO of Open Road Integrated Media  Interview Starts at 10:15 The words of the author are the most significant part of this whole world. What we need is just to make sure that those words are received in whatever format the consumer want

Creator of Kindle Nation Daily and BookGorilla Interview Starts at 7:42 We're seeing very fierce price competition between all players. Your well-known, top-tier bestselling authors--their publishers are competing with self-published books, indie

Digital Production at Unbound, eBooks researcher Interview Starts at 8:07   If you'd ask a new birdwatcher whether they're going to buy a birdwatching book on the Kindle or buy a birdwatching app on their iPhone, somebody who's absolutely new and ans

Co-founder of BookVibe Interview Starts at 21:12 With BookVibe there's less of a barrier to getting recommendations. It's very simple. You don't need your friends to be on the social network. You don't need your friends to be ranking books on a specif

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Interview Starts at 18:51 As Amazon, you want to say to people, "We really don't care what device you own. Now, we have a few devices that we're going to give you that are optimized for your Amazo

Author and his dog, Finnegan Interview Starts at 11:07 I see the alphabet as disappearing, the alphabet itself. It's designed for something else.  We don't have a need for the kinds of sensibility that it provides. That is, our new situation doesn't s

BookExpo America 2013 panel on Self-Publishing Starts at 10:12 I actually think disruption is the best defense for publishing. Self-publishing is turning out to be a potential boon for publishers, because you can sit there and watch people market themse

Director of the Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries Interview Starts at 14:08 Now we have over 900 publishers who have said yes. That's translated for us to about 22,000 [eBook] titles that we've purchased so far. We still have about 14,000 that we're "buy