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Nearly 800 O'Reilly and Microsoft Press titles now available in iBookstore
October 12 2010
Ebooks are already a big part of our publishing business, and we know many of those ebooks are read on iOS devices. Having those ebooks available for sale in the iBookstore makes it even easier to find, buy, and read hundreds of O'Reilly and Microsoft Press titles on iOS devices. read moreNeat visualization of download ratios for ebook formats offered by O'Reilly
October 01 2010
We track the ebook formats customers actually download, and from the start PDF has been the dominant choice. But as this post's associated chart shows, there's been a steady shift toward other formats. read moreAmazon building its own Android App Market?
September 29 2010
While the carriers see the Android Market as an opportunity to build tightly-controlled versions of the Market, non-exclusivity opens the door for companies that (a) know retailing and merchandising much better than Google, (b) aren't in the awkward position of having to play nice with the carriers, and (c) have… read moreNearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Store
September 22 2010
Nearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks are now available in the Kindle store, and include a special upgrade offer for access to additional formats and free lifetime updates through oreilly.com for $4.99. read moreNearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks now available in Kindle Store
September 22 2010
Nearly 1,000 additional O'Reilly and Microsoft Press ebooks are now available in the Kindle store, and include a special upgrade offer for access to additional formats and free lifetime updates through oreilly.com for $4.99. read moreO'Reilly ebook bundles now include DAISY talking book format
September 08 2010
More than 800 O'Reilly titles are now available in DAISY format. If you've already bought an oreilly.com ebook, you can find the DAISY files on your account page. read moreO'Reilly Ebook Bundles now include DAISY Talking Book Format
September 08 2010
For years we've supplied our digital files to Bookshare, a non-profit that provides accessible reading material to the print disabled. For qualifying readers, our books are made available worldwide,... read moreA New Take on the "Pocket Reference" -- Public Beta of new O'Reilly Mobile HTML App
August 25 2010
While there's been continued strong interest in our ebook iPhone apps (especially outside the US), taking a book and packaging it up as an app doesn't take advantage of many of the capabilities a device like the iPhone (or Android... read moreEbook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard
June 07 2010
I spend a lot of time talking with companies that want to resell O'Reilly ebooks. Some are large companies you've certainly heard of, others are small startups that haven't yet launched. But what's remarkably consistent is that few of them offer many of the options and features we at O'Reilly… read moreEbook Reseller Wishlist/Scorecard
June 07 2010
I spend a lot of time talking with companies that want to resell O'Reilly ebooks. Some are large companies you've certainly heard of, others are small startups that haven't yet... read moreThe power of promotional pricing
June 03 2010
We've been running an ebook "$9.99 deal of the day" promotion for some time now, and customer response has been quite positive. There's also some very interesting sales data coming... read moreYou may not be writing software, but someday you'll probably write like the people who do
May 21 2010
Hugh McGuire's post yesterday raised some great points about what a really effective web-friendly distributed and inherently social writing platform should look like. When it comes to the software tools... read moreYes the iPad is sexy, but global sales are the real ebook growth news
May 07 2010
A deep look at the ebook growth opportunities in global markets and how direct sales can offset print book cannibalization. read moreSession/Speaker Ideas for TOC Frankfurt 2010
May 05 2010
Last year's first-ever TOC Frankfurt turned out better than we'd even hoped, with a 400-strong sellout crowd representing a diverse range of international publishers. We've lined up a bigger venue... read moreScenes from a Very Quiet London Book Fair
April 20 2010
Some photos snapped yesterday during the first day of the London Book Fair. Crowds have picked up on Day 2, but still an eerily quiet show.... read moreWhy iPad Adaptation is an Uphill Battle for Incumbent Publishers
April 08 2010
I heard quite a bit of buzz the past few days about the Popular Science+ iPad app, a "reimagining" of the magazine for the iPad (for the low-low price... read moreNYT Web Piece on Mobile Outperforming Web Demonstrates Own Conclusion
March 12 2010
NYTimes.com has a piece from Wednesday about several popular mobile apps that are better than their "parent" websites (using Zillow and Yelp as examples). What struck me when I first... read moreTOC Preview: The Future of Digital Textbooks
February 19 2010
Technology is driving change in the way people teach, learn, and create. The impact of technology on teaching and learning in K-12, higher education, and professional learning has been profound,... read moreFebruary 18 2010
This week I'll be posting some preview highlights about next week's (nearly sold out) TOC Conference in New York. While there's plenty of familiar faces on the attendee list for... read moreTOC Preview: Ebooks Are Here (But Print Still is Too)
February 17 2010
This week I'll be posting some preview highlights about next week's (nearly sold out) TOC Conference in New York. Much of the conversation in publishing today revolves around ebooks, digital... read moreTOC Preview: Getting the Reader's Perspective
February 16 2010
This week I'll be posting some preview highlights about next week's (nearly sold out) TOC Conference in New York. One of the concerns we heard loud and clear from last... read moreLightning Demos and Ignite!: Micropresentations at TOC 2010
February 12 2010
At the first three TOC Conferences, we held evening "Lightning Demo" sessions for brief product pitches and short-form presentations. The constraints of a brief time slot often spur impressive creativity... read moreWhy Mobile Will Win: eReaders are Sustaining, Mobile is Disruptive
January 25 2010
In one of the comments to Friday's speculation post about The Tablet, Scott Lewis sums up one of the most common objections to the viability of smartphone-based reading: 3.5" screen...... read moreThe Unicorns are Here, They're Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet
January 23 2010
I really didn't want to do another post about The Tablet. But then I saw this piece from Fortune (via @jafurtado -- does he ever sleep?) and this sentence drove... read more2009 O'Reilly Ebook Revenue up 104%
January 22 2010
During the past 18 months we've seen a dramatic shift in customer preference from print to digital when looking at sales from oreilly.com, which is a substantial sales channel for... read moreTen Reasons Why You Should Sign up for TOC 2010 Right Now
January 20 2010
In no particular order, here's ten links/reasons you should sign up right now for TOC 2010: "A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly & Ray Kurzweil" Arianna Huffington is one of the... read moreWhy the Apple/Publisher News isn't Really News
January 19 2010
The interwebs are abuzz over reports that Apple has been in talks with the "big 6" publishers to make their content available on the mythical (and purportedly forthcoming) Apple... read moreJanuary 05 2010
This post from Publishing Perspectives about publishing in Africa came in over the break, and it's worth a look: Five years later, [Muhtar] Bakare is still a confident believer in the power of the internet to revolutionize the African publishing industry. “The internet is our own Gutenberg moment,” he told… read moreAndroid Rising: O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone
December 23 2009
O'Reilly sells apps in both the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. Most apps (for now) are just app presentations of our ebooks, built using ereader apps popular on each platform (Stanza on iPhone, Aldiko on Android). That means many of our apps are essentially the same on each… read morePDF vs. EPUB vs. Mobi Format Download Comparison for oreilly.com
December 18 2009
I'm honored to have been elected to the IDPF Board of Directors, and will use the occasion to share some interesting data about download formats from oreilly.com. For most... read moreDavid Pogue Revisits DRM Question about Ebooks
December 17 2009
In a blog post today, New York Times Columnist (and bestselling O'Reilly author) David Pogue responds to a reader question about DRM (he calls it "copy protection") in light... read moreFirst Look at nook: Not Encouraging
December 15 2009
We (finally) received our nooks (pre-ordered quite some time ago), and the early results are ... disappointing. Loading one (any) of our EPUB ebooks causes the nook to hang,... read moreRolling out Android .apk Files in Ebook Bundles
December 04 2009
A distinguishing feature of Google's Android Market compared to the App Store is that it's a non-exclusive agreement. That means Android app developers are free to sell their apps... read moreOutperforming Books at Getting a Job Done
November 16 2009
Clay Christensen talks about how people hire products to do jobs for them, and for a very long time books have been the best performers at doing certain types of... read moreMichael Tamblyn's TOC Frankfurt presentation (actually a dramatic recreation thereof)
November 07 2009
via blip.tv Shortcovers' Michael Tamblyn was kind enough to record his talk and slides from last month's TOC Frankfurt Conference. I got a lot of great hallway feedback about... read moreWilliam Patry delivering Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Duke
November 07 2009
via ustream.tv Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010, delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the... read moreQwitter: Accessible Twitter client (uses TTS) (via @doctorow)
November 05 2009
Just make sure not to follow anyone who's a member of the Author's Guild ... "The Qwitter client enables blind individuals to interface with the Twitter service globally, regardless of... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: Publishing without Boundaries: What's on the O'Reilly Radar for the Future of Publishing
September 30, 2010
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