What's Going On Inside Digital Book World 2012 in NYC (Day 2)

BY Tim Sanders > Today, I sat through several general sessions and panels at Digital Book World 2012. It was an enlightening experience for me, and several themes emerged over the course of the day.

Rather than talking about each session, and giving you a blippy blow-by-blow report, I'd like to talk about five major topics and give you my .02 on what I heard. If you want to...

The Future of Publishing is Digital

BY Tim Sanders > Net Minds is a marketplace for book ideas that produces digital products. We are making a big bet on the rise of eBooks in our reading life, as we'll sell zero physical products. For this first post I'd like to tell you about my journey to the digital publishing revolution.

In his 1996 classic Being Digital MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte predicted that in the near future information will move from the disc (or the page) to a series of zeros...

The Problem With By-Your-Self Publishing

BY Tim Sanders > Every time I hear someone say, "I've been thinking about self-publishing my book idea," I reply, "Why? Don't you want it to be good? Don't you want the world to read it?" Then I explain to them, what I'm about to reveal to you.

It should really be called By-Your-Self Publishing. Because when you do it, you are all alone from concept to execution.

Propelling Your Book Project From Zero To One

BY Tim Sanders > For non-fiction authors and editors, getting a book from the idea stage to the working project stage is a herculean task. This reminds me of something X Prize founder Peter Diamandis told me a few years ago about startups: "Each step in the journey has it's own distance, some farther than others. The biggest step for any new venture is the leap from zero to one. Get there, and going from two to eight will seem...