We’ve recently recognized a significant growth area for Appingo’s business. It happened by accident, but it makes perfect sense. I’m actually embarrassed that we didn’t think about it earlier. Here’s how it happened:
When we decided to build the Appingo software system, we wanted to build a tool to UNTANGLE the process of making a book [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Publishing industry insights’
October 15, 2009
For tangled hair: A good brush is a good start…
September 3, 2009
Flatworld Knowledge: Big idea for educational publishing
I’ve been meaning to do a quick shout-out to Flatworld Knowledge for a couple of weeks. We met and had a great conversation with with Jeff Shelstad (one of the founders) at the end of August. If you don’t know Flatworld, you should. They are a recent, VC-backed start-up looking to make a significant, sustainable [...]
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 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 5, 2009
Jane Friedman/Larry Kirshbaum interview
So here is a VERY INTERESTING interview with Jane Friedman & Larry Kirshbaum. I finally got to watch the whole thing and there is some great stuff in here. It’s definitely worth a watch. Some interesting things:
Publishing as an industry is old and very resistant to change.
The process of making a book takes WAY TOO [...]
July 13, 2009
Hey Publishers…the Internet can be a cool thing!
Last week, Really Strategies (provider of content management systems to publishers) bought DocZone, a provider of a nimble, light, SaaS-based content management system.
So now Really Strategies is going to be singing the same song that we at Appingo have been singing since launching our SaaS-based project management system for book publishers:
Publishers, meet SaaS. SaaS, meet [...]
July 7, 2009
More talks about book “producer”/packager/agent models
So, I’m just getting back into it after being away getting married for the past couple of weeks. Catching up on emails, Appingo progress and blog articles. More on all of this later.
However, I did want t call attention to a couple of articles that were written over the past couple of weeks about the [...]
July 1, 2009
Publishers Debt Dilema
The picture looks pretty gray.
There’s a ton of pressure on publishers today. Sales are down, the internet is re-structuring the what information is gathered, managed and and distributed. Outsourcing doesn’t work as well as it does in pure manufactured products. What to do?
Check out Penelope Trunk on Gen Y and the attitude of mentoring, job [...]
June 1, 2009
Quote of the day re: Publishing Unconference
An exciting new “un-event” in the publishing world is BookCamp-Toronto (a publishing UnConference). You can read more about it here. It’s happening this weekend and we hope to be there.
With that said, we loved this quote from the National Post story:
“I really think I’m going to get in trouble for saying this, but book [...]
May 28, 2009
Great Post on Underdogs
I just love this post from our friends over at 37Signals. Please read the post — it’s quick and great.
There are many things that I love about this post (and topic) and it leads to many thoughts for us here at Appingo. Here are some reasons why I love this post:
It is based on [...]
