2. 2
How publishers can leverage the
abundance of new technology
options available to improve
their audience reach;
Provide examples of how
publishers are successfully
marketing and promoting their
titles on social networks, the
web and on mobile devices
Mila Zinkova
Bob Carlton ~ LibreDigital Hashtag: #tocdmw
4. 4
“We can argue about speed and direction – but
there's not much doubt that the world of books
is undergoing its most profound structural shift
since Gutenberg”
John Makinson, Chairman & CEO of the PENGUIN GROUP
5. 5
PRINT DIGITAL
Discovery has moved Online marketing
away from promotion surpassing offline
Legacy categories flat New business models
or in decline challenging core
Unit of meaning moving Rights & permissions
to the article or chapter model under attack
Digital printing impacts Consumers reading
all markets across multiple devices
..most profound structural shift since Gutenberg..
7. 7
The customer has stepped out of the
bookstore and into the foyer of the
publishing houses, they are knocking on the
doors of authors, and asking to be
addressed as individuals.
They will consent to purchase, not when
coerced by a front-of-the-store display or
fabulous media coverage, but when their
friends start talking about how awesome/
helpful/inspiring/powerful the actual book
itself is.
Shelton Green
8.
9. 9
Book buyers now 30%
more likely to
discover your book online than traditional
offline promotions
Source: 2009 Bowker PubTrack Consumer Report
13. 13
handselling:
Products and services sold
to consumers by direct,
one-on-one contact.
CONTEXT INTERFACE
A shopkeeper or
salesperson modified
the order to the SOCIAL
OBJECT
customer’s wishes in
what has been called.
19. Corporations look to scale
Social business becomes
serious play
Mobile becomes a social
media lifeline
Sharing no longer
means e-mail
Google's Great, But
Facebook Rocks
Guidelines for Safe Surfing
20. 20
Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist,
specializing in primate behavior. At Oxford, Dunbar is currently Professor of
Evolutionary Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and
Evolutionary Anthropology in the School of Anthropology, and a Fellow of
Magdalen College. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including
Primate Social Systems (1988), The Trouble with Science (1995), The
Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary View (1999), Human Evolutionary
Psychology (2002), and The Human Story (2004).
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