Courier’s FastPencil at BEA 2013
Steve Wilson, president and co-founder of FastPencil, gives a demo of the entire book creation and publishing process streamlined by the FastPencil platform. He describes FastPencil as “an end-to-end platform available to everyone from self-publishers all the way up to best-selling authors.”
FastPencil was just acquired last month by Courier. Congratulations!
For more information, please go to http://www.courier.com/solutions and http://www.fastpencil.com
Tizra at BEA 2013
Abe Dane, President and COO of Tizra, demonstrates this feature rich, practical white label platform designed to place flexibility, agility and fine grain control into the publishers’ hands.
Tizra is about enabling publishers to create direct connections with their customers and tailor their product offerings based on seeing how their end-users interact with their products.
For more information, please go to http://tizra.com/index.php?page=home.
YUDU Media at BEA 2013
Miranda Tadros, Senior Account Executive at YUDU Media, describes their cloud-based cross-platform educational solution.
YUDU Media builds branded container apps promoting the publisher’s brand. The app can contain 1000’s of books. Supported activities include notes, games, puzzles, video, audio, and soon to be released, read-aloud. It gives the publisher a direct channel to their end-user.
For more information, please go to http://www.yudu.com.
Vook at BEA 2013
Matthew Cavnar, Co-founder and VP Business Development for Vook, talks about its beginnings as the first creator of video enhanced eBooks back in 2009, before the iPad was introduced.
Now vook provides a “total publishing house in a box, all the tools a major publisher might have whether you are an individual author or a large company.”
Create, sell and market best in class ebooks.
For more information, please go to http://vook.com.
Virtusales at BEA 2013
Rodney Elder, VP Commercial Operations for virtusales, talks about virtusales’ software offering for publishers to manage their pre-press operations. The cool thing is virtusales now addresses rights management in the mix. A compelling offering available for even small publishers.
For more information, please go to http://virtusales.com/home.
Slicebooks at BEA 2013
Jill Tomich, Co-founder of Slicebooks, talks about its beginnings as eBookPie. Their initial focus was to develop a tool for publishers to slice and sell standalone subsections (usually chapters) of a published book.
Next, she demonstrates their new consumer remix widget. It allows anyone to rebundle, share and sell selected slices from the Slicebook content catalog to create new eBooks.
They’re keeping it fun as they think up cool new product offerings.
For more information, please go to slicebooks.com.
P3D at BEA 2013
Moshe Lahav, Intl. Marketing and Sales, for P3D, shows off a few interactive 3D models for learning environments from P3D’s extensive collections.
This is a powerful new teaching tool especially to reach visual learners from K-12 to higher education.
For more information, please go to http://www.p3d.com.br/eng/
Hurix Systems at BEA 2013
Vishal Dani, VP Product Solutions at Hurix Systems, talks about Dictera - a cloud-based collaborative authoring platform using a template-driven approach to create digital learning content.
For more information, please go to www.dictera.com.
Flipick at BEA 2013
Glenn Bailey, VP of Technology at Flipick, talks about this 2013 winner of the IDPF Innovation Award. Flipick is a simple tool to generate ePub3 fixed-layout eBooks directly from InDesign.
This SaaS platform for publishers and self-published authors will officially launch in July 2013.
For more information, please go to http://www.flipick.com
Book Connect at BEA 2013
Lisa Chaney, from Book Connect, describes their Book One meta-data management platform for book publishers.
One key advantage she highlights is how Book Connect works with publishers’ existing systems so they can continue with how they are already doing things and still take advantage of what Book Connect has to offer.
Book One provides clean meta-data required by trade industry leaders such as Apple, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. They are particularly focused on serving small to mid-sized publishers.
For more information, please go to http://www.bookconnect.ca
Bindworx at BEA 2013
Jo Pountney, Development Manager at bindworx, talks about how the bindworx platform allows digital content to be fragmented and then remashed together to create totally new ebooks or print on demand editions.
There’s been a lot of interest around academic use and the ability for lecturers or academic institutions to remix already published content with their own content, study questions, etc. and create custom ePub files or Print on Demand documents to distribute among their students.
bindworx - Infinitely Personal Content Creation
For more information, please go to http://www.bindworx.com
“It was exciting to watch 200 people come together at one time in one space and grapple with the challenge of digital book discovery,” said Rick Joyce, CMO of Perseus and one of the judges. “Not only were fascinating solutions developed, but there was a lot for a publishing person to learn about the ways content is connected and discovered digitally from these talented designers and coders.”
I had the pleasure of interviewing Justo Hidalgo, co-founder at 24Symbols, at Frankfurt Book Fair 2011. It’s good to hear the company is doing well. Congratulations Justo!
“Most authors price at $2.99…
Smashwords founder and CEO Mark Coker found that authors chose to price at $2.99 ”more frequently than any other price point. In last year’s survey, $.99 was a more common price point than $2.99. In this year’s survey, $2.99 was [chosen] about 60 percent more often.”
…but $3.99 sells the most copies.
Smashwords’ findings suggest that those $2.99 authors should price up by a dollar: “One surprising finding is that, on average, $3.99 books sold more units than $2.99 books, and more units than any other price except FREE. I didn’t expect this. Although the general pattern holds that lower priced books tend to sell more units than higher priced books, $3.99 was the rule-breaker. According to our Yield Graph, $3.99 earned authors total income that was 55% above the average compared to all price points.”
(via paidcontent.org, May 9, 2013)
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