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Book Description

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing – Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders is Digital Book World’s first ebook. In interviews with 19 innovative ebook business leaders, Digital Book World’s editorial director Jeremy Greenfield draws out how these professionals are leading the digital transition and shaping the future of publishing. You’ll learn how these leaders are organizing their teams, pioneering new forms of content, and gathering and responding to data.

The digital publishing community is passionate, engaged and international, and Digital Book World’s mission is to provide a forum for the community to gather, share hard-won insights, present innovative challenges, and pool its collective intelligence for the benefit of all its members.

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Masthead
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Editor’s Introduction, by Jeremy Greenfield
  5. The Importance of People and Recruiting in the Digital Book Era, by Thad McIlroy
  6. The Metadata Handbook
  7. Publishing Leaders Happily Disrupt Themselves to Avoid Being Disrupted, by James McQuivey
  8. Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
  9. Building Digital Book World’s First Ebook, by Deanna Utroske
  10. Digital Book World Community
  11. Interviews
    1. F+W Media Chairman & CEO David Nussbaum
    2. Penguin Development Group Director Peter Harris
    3. Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler
    4. HarperCollins Chief Digital Officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi
    5. Kobo’s Executive Vice President of Content Michael Tamblyn
    6. HarperCollins CMO Angela Tribelli
    7. Perseus Chief Marketing Officer Rick Joyce
    8. Smashwords CEO Mark Coker
    9. Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah
    10. Simon & Schuster Chief Digital Officer Ellie Hirschhorn
    11. Callaway Digital Arts Founder Nicholas Callaway
    12. Ingram Chairman John Ingram
    13. Hyperion CEO Ellen Archer
    14. Hachette Digital’s Maja Thomas
    15. Thomas Nelson CEO Mark Schoenwald
    16. Wiley Director of Digital Content and Sales Peter Balis
    17. Penguin Global Digital Director Molly Barton
    18. Random House Worlds Senior Editor and Transmedia Producer Tricia Pasternak
    19. Ellora’s Cave Publisher Raelene Gorlinsky
  12. Appendices
    1. Leaked
    2. What Are You Reading and On What Platform?
  13. Copyright