Panelists: Mark Coker (moderator), Joe Wikert, April Hamilton, David Rothman, Russell Wilcox If I had to compare Tuesday’s panel with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, I would say this. Claire Danes was superior to April Hamilton. Russ Wilcox, a rather cocky gentleman who spoke like some sno...

Dear Jeff, As 2008 comes to a close I find I’m less of a Kindle advocate than I was earlier in the year. My new iPhone is partially to blame. After all, it’s one of the reasons I wrote this critical post on my other blog yesterday. It’s not just about the iPhone though. Amazon is u...

I was holding out for the next generation Kindle.  I didn’t want to spend the money on a "version 1.0" product.  My wife had other plans.  She decided to give me one of the best birthday gifts I’ve ever received: a shiny new Kindle.  The gift arrived Friday ...

Literary Video’s tagline is “Creating Multimedia Content that Sells Books.”  I discovered this service last month and exchanged a couple of e-mails with David Woodard, founder and creative director. With the ever increasing importance of video in the publishing world, I jumped...

As a publisher focusing on the professional IT sector, I ask myself this question a lot: What does the technology add?  Is this new tool or release measurably different from the others?  Will it enable users to create products faster, less expensively, with more useful features—or al...