We’ve been writing a lot about some new models for the Publishing industry and highly recommending that the industry take some lessons for the well-oiled Hollywood film biz. One of our big predictions and recommendations is for the emergence of a Book Producer model similar to that of the Hollywood film producer.
Since writing on the [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 24, 2009
AppingoJim: Publisher Admits that Internet “Ain’t All Bad.”
Publisher Admits that Internet “Ain’t All Bad.”
By AppingoJim, staff
NEW YORK, NY — Publishing executives are showing signs of warming up to this whole “Internet thing.”
“Up until now, the Internet has proven to be nothing but one big thorn in my side,” said one high-ranking publishing [...]
August 19, 2009
Power Users — what should we call them?
Every system has “Power Users.” These are users that are more experienced and skilled at using the system than most others. These are people who wield the tool like a In most cases, they probably represent the top 2-3% of all users.
Most systems refer to them as Power Users.
We have an existing group of Appingo [...]
August 18, 2009
Jane Friedman: It takes too long to make a book…
Last week, we blogged about a great interview with Publishing titans Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum. Click on the video to the right to watch it…
There were a lot of great comments and discussions about the publishing world in this interview, but we especially liked the discussion about how long it takes to make a [...]
August 17, 2009
Appingo Welcomes Bottom Line Publishing Services to the family.
We are very happy to welcome Bottom Line publishing services as the newest member of the Appingo family. Bottom Line is a fun group of folks with a TON of experience in the publishing world — specifically in the publishing services world. They are experts in delivering huge publishing projects on time and under budget. [...]
August 14, 2009
Publisher Finds Missing Illustrator Buried in FTP Server
By AppingoJim, staff
WASHINGTON, DC — After a four-day search involving an entire production team, his family and the local police, a valuable Illustrator was finally discovered buried deep in a publisher’s tangled FTP site.
“I don’t know how it happened,” said the Illustrator after reconnecting with his family. “The thing just ate me up. I was [...]
August 11, 2009
Publishing Executive Seen Managing Projects… From the Beach!
By AppingoJim, staff
LONG ISLAND, NY— Yesterday, a high-profile production executive was spotted managing the production of several major book projects while enjoying the sun and sipping what appeared to be a frozen cocktail on an East Hampton beach.
Armed only with an iPhone 3G and cooler full of Daiquiri mix, the executive spent the first hour [...]
August 7, 2009
Have you been gruntled lately?
A friend asked me this question the other day, “Have you been gruntled lately”?
I have to say, it sounded kind of kinky, so I wasn’t sure how to answer.
Instead I asked, have you?
And she said, “yes, last night I was gruntled with lobster roll and crab cakes”. She immediately knew I hadn’t the foggiest clue [...]
August 7, 2009
Publishers Rejoice! Appingo Saves Production.
By Appingo Jim, staff
Publishers and their production staffs have joined together this week to celebrate the launch of the Appingo Production Management Suite.
“Finally, I’ll be able to see my kids before bedtime,” one particularly enthusiastic Production Manager exclaimed.
The breakthrough Appingo web-based software brings clarity and efficiency to the process of making books. A simultaneous, [...]
August 6, 2009
Good Seth Godin post on Solving Problems
Seth Godin had a good post today about the difference between solving problems and just creating solutions. Too many times, companies create and try to sell solutions that aren’t really solving any problems. Reading this post made me feel good about the way in which we built the Appingo system. We wrote more about our [...]
