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Mediatwits #66: Special Roundtable on Future of Print Books and E-Books

Welcome to the 66th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and Rafat Ali as co-hosts.

Sadly, this marks the last episode with Rafat Ali as co-host and our last episode of the year.

Click to read the whole series.

In the new year, Mediatwits will be revamped as more of a weekly roundtable discussion moderated by Mark Glaser.

But our last show is a fascinating one, an in-depth discussion on the state of the book publishing business, the future of print books and how e-books might evolve.

Our guests are O’Reilly’s Joe Wikert, Movable Type Management’s Jason Allen Ashlock and BiblioCrunch CEO Miral Sattar. How can traditional book publishers and literary agents survive in a digital future, and will print books become endangered?

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Guest Bios

Joe Wikert

Joe Wikert is General Manager, Publisher, & Chair of the Tools of Change (TOC) conference at O’Reilly Media. Prior to joining O’Reilly he was Vice President and Executive Publisher at John Wiley & Sons in their Professional & Trade division.

Jason Allen Ashlock is a co-founder of Movable Type Management, a literary production company that fosters storytelling across platforms, devices, territories, and generations.

Miral Sattar is founder and CEO of BiblioCrunch, a platform that matches authors and publishers with quality, award-winning professionals to get new books and apps to market. She has worked in the media industry for 11 years, most recently at TIME where she launched digital initiatives.

Highlights from the Show

Intro

0:30: Rafat signing off as co-host, but will be back when possible

2:00: Update on Rafat’s startup, Skift, serving the travel world

3:30: Rafat’s and Mark’s e-book habits vs. print

Jason Allen Ashlock

5:20: Rafat’s Museum of Lost & Broken Kindles

Roundtable: Beyond the Book 2012

7:00: Special guests Joe Wikert, Jason Allen Ashlock, Miral Sattar

9:20: Wikert: O’Reilly uses DRM-free e-books, builds community

10:20: What is role of publisher with rise of self-publishing?

12:10: Ashlock: Literary agents will continue what they’re doing, but need to become “radical mediators”

15:20: Sattar: Our BiblioCrunch service helps guide authors with a concierge service

Miral Sattar

17:30: Wikert: Publishers will need to have more brand recognition

20:10: Ashlock: Print was the default mode, but now digital is the democratic space

22:10: What is the future for the e-book format? Will more multimedia come?

23:20: Wikert: HTML5 will win the day

25:10: Sattar: Cookbooks are perfect for including video with e-books or any how-to books

26:30: Ashlock: Children’s books and cookbooks both require more interactivity, even in print

27:10: Great events coming up: Digital Book World; Tools of Change; Book Squared; Indie Recon

More Reading

Sorry, but e-readers aren’t dying at PaidContent

Ebook sales projection, 2012, second update at Rocket Bomber

Ebook lending vs. ownership at TOC blog

Why Self-Publishers Should Care That Penguin Bought Author Solutions at MediaShift

Amazon: Kindle E-Books Sales Overtake Print at Guardian

Literary Agent Jason Ashlock: Big Book Publishers Not Innovating Fast Enough at MediaShift

New York Times launches ebook programs with Byliner and Vook at PaidContent

Digital Book World conference

Tools of Change for Publishing conference

Author Revolution Day conference

Indie ReCon online conference

Poll

Be sure to vote in our weekly poll, this time your preference of print or e-books:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian and fiancee Renee. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit. and Circle him on Google+

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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