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Media Highlights

The Platform by Peter Osnos, A New Paradigm for Publishing

On March 24, George Soros delivered a finished manuscript by e-mail to PublicAffairs, his publisher (where I am founder and editor-at-large). Soros had concluded that the current turmoil is "the worst financial crisis since the 1930s." He wanted his analysis, titled The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, available immediately Read the article.  Go

Publishers Weekly, NACS Foundation Partners with Caravan Project

A grant from the NACS Foundation, the charitable branch of the National Association of College Stores (NACS), will help fund a national project aimed at providing consumers access to reading materials in multiple formats. The $25,000 grant to the Caravan Project, a partnership of publishers, booksellers and libraries, would support the establishment of programs in college stores, that would enable consumers to access digital, downloadable and large-print books on demand. Read the article. Go

eMusic, eMUSIC JOINS CARAVAN PROJECT TO INCREASE SALES

eMusic, the digital entertainment retailer of music and audiobooks, and the Caravan Project, an innovative partnership of non-profit publishers, booksellers and libraries, today announced that eMusic will become the first digital audio retailer of Caravan Books. Approximately 60 Caravan titles from distinguished non-fiction publishers including Yale University Press, Harvard University Press and The University of North Carolina Press will be available on eMusic in the US and EU within the next few months.Read the article.  Go

Bookselling This Week, Peter Osnos on Convenience and Quality

Every so often in the daily perusal of information — in print and online, over the air, over cable, or beamed from a satellite — something leaps out that actually changes the way the world looks. … the transformation of today's world of news and entertainment is about consumer choice. … At stake is nothing less than the share of audiences and revenues, which are, of course, the lifeblood of the media businesses. Read the article.  Go

Business Week, Getting Out of a Bind by Tom Lowry

Now the two-decade-old concept of just-in-time inventory is catching up to the antiquated book biz. Read the article.  Go

Washington Post, For Bookstores, a Real Page-Turner by Bob Thompson

Want to see the future of the book? Pay attention to what's on the screen. … Imagine you're a customer looking for a book you don't find on the shelf. As you would now, you'll likely ask a bookseller to check the store computer for it. As is not yet possible, the bookseller will say: "We can order you a print copy or we can sell it to you in other formats, some of which could be ready for downloading by the time you get home. How would you like it?" Read the article.  Go

New York Times, New Book Formats by Motoko Rich

The idea is that no buyer should ever go into a bookstore and be turned away because the book is out of stock. Read the article.  Go

Wall Street Journal, Veteran Publisher Osnos Launches On-Demand Nonfiction Book Venture – Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

At a time when book publishers are aggressively exploring new distribution opportunities, publishing veteran Peter Osnos has launched a new venture aimed at producing electronic and audio versions of serious nonfiction books. Read the article.  Go

Bookselling This Week, Caravan Forms to Give Readers a Choice

Using emerging digital and time-tested technologies for the manufacture of books, The Caravan Project will offer serious nonfiction consumers a menu of formats, both print and digital, from which to choose how they read a book. The goal is to make the distribution of these books more efficient by placing them where and when they are needed. Read the article .  Go

ForeWord, Caravan Project to Make Books Available in Multiple Formats

This spring, thanks to the newly launched Caravan Project, 23 titles from seven leading nonprofit publishers will be available simultaneously in print, digital, and audio formats. The Caravan Project, funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation will make these books available in an effort to find a solution "to the technical, marketing and distribution challenges for books in the digital age."