Briefly Noted | Five Degrees Of Metadata: Small Changes Can Mean Big Sales

25 January, 2011 · by · in

Good data can help you find winners not only among your new acquisitions, but also among your backlist. While it may be easy to spot huge trends like vampires, niche trends are harder to see. But a five-degree shift in…

Briefly Noted | A fragment of this and a bundle of that | FutureBook

25 January, 2011 · by · in

The move from physical to digital distribution is forcing the publishing industry to reconsider how they package their products. By ‘packaging’, I refers not to hardback or paperback, but to bundles, fragments, online subscriptions and access. For example, a set…