As I was clicking through the pictures of the volume, I got to thinking that I might be looking at the future of the book industry in the post e-book world.
Bob Johansen is a fellow at the Institute for the Future and author of the book, Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain Future.
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In the ebook ( Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing), executives talk about training their people to do new things and hiring new kinds of people.
Obviously, the New Zealander who has staked his net worth on the future of the emerging economies is talking his book, but given the burgeoning debt in Greece, the United Kingdom and other European countries, Jennings may have a point when he says that as capital becomes more mobile it will look for the less obvious investment opportunities like Africa.
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The following is a highly edited and altered excerpt from an introduction to my new ebook, Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing, synthesized with excerpts and ideas from another introduction to the ebook by Forrester principal analyst James McQuivey, Ph.
Legendary science fiction author David Gerrold contemplates the future of the e-book as a medium unto itself, separate from the books that precede it.
Scenes from Revolution are replete with visuals of the famous Wrigley Field covered in shrubbery, overgrown cities, burnt out cars, and characters who fight their way through militia members in order to save the ill-fated continent in what seems to resemble a future where The Road meets The Book of Eli.
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Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing is available DRM-free at the DBW Store.
Among the first things likely to go, according to Peter Thomson and Alison Maitland, co-authors of the book "Future Work: How businesses can adapt and thrive in the new world of work, " is the idea of a fulltime job.
The process of producing the book was itself a microcosm of all the issues involved in the future of work.
You are the future of book marketing.
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With the future of reading heading squarely in the direction of electronic devices, what to do with the old timey book form?
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For the non-lawyers among us, the statement holds out the prospect of 'Craig Whyte: the Movie', a stocking-filler book for a future Christmas at Ibrox, and, of course, a reality TV format.
The real future of book and media could be in Microsoft's Xbox, Jayson says.
Second, because Amazon was propagating a technology platform as the front end of a book ecosystem, publishers feared a future monopoly in which Amazon controlled the market to such an extent as to control wholesale pricing and other business terms.
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The result is that music is being marketed as an experience, not simply as a product--a phenomenon highlighted by David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard in their 2005 book The Future of Music.
Where Kael made demands of the future, though, Wolcott has essentially produced a book-length complaint that the world is not the way it used to be.
Steffen, a journalist and founder of WorldChanging, raised money for his book Carbon Zero, which details the future of carbon neutral cities and comes out next month.
What kind of a future would the book have after it disappeared from the shelves? he wondered.
Demonstrating how patient engagement is central to the future of healthcare, the professional association for healthIT (HIMSS) has published the seminal book on patient engagement.
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With every passing day the 1992 Cable Act becomes more of a rabbit-ear relic of a bygone one-way communication era, something that more appropriately should be part of a museum exhibit or a history book not permanently driving the current and future trajectory of American video competition, technology and innovation.
As Gary Hamel argues in his book, The Future of Management, the vast majority of enterprises still operate via management models designed for an unskilled labor force manufacturing widgets.
Back in the 1990s the pundit Virginia Postrel (then editor of Reason magazine, the libertarian journal) wrote a book called The Future and Its Enemies (Free Press, 1998).
Author of The City: A Global History, he is finishing a book on the American future.
In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.
Other authors in recent years have used Internet material without attribution, including Chris Anderson, whose 2009 book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" contained passages taken verbatim from Wikipedia.
The market value of the stock is only 35% of book value, a very pessimistic assessment of future viability.
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The extensive coverage of Angelo Mozilo and Countrywide is especially poignant since his future still hung in the balance at the time the book went to press.
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The basic thrust of the book is that financial reform laws in individual countries are irrelevant as tools against a future crisis, because they simply provide incentives to firms to take their riskier business elsewhere.
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