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Publishers Were Ready for Pew E-Book Study
This businessman seems ready for the starting gun.By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaidThe latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life project about e-reading...
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Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah: ‘Data Works Better Than Your Gut’
By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaidDominique Raccah is a data-driven publisher.As CEO of Sourcebooks, a Naperville, IL-based publishing company with nearly 100...
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Sourcebooks Appoints Barbara Briel First Chief Operating Officer
By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaidThe c-suite at Sourcebooks just got a little more crowded.For the first time ever, the Naperville, IL-based publisher will have a...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Getting Agile About Books
Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a webcast titled “Agile Content Development for Book Publishers.” We had less than an hour to explain, demonstrate and sometimes defend the agile methodology...
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Sourcebooks Reports Successful Year and Announces Initiatives
Sourcebooks’s Vice President and Editorial Director Todd Stocke issued a bulletin to colleagues in the publishing industry reporting record-breaking sales and exciting initiatives in the traditional...
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Sourcebooks Wants to Reinvent Shakespeare With The Shakesperience
Sourcebooks is trying to reinvent the way people learn Shakespeare.“The way we do it now is too hard,” said Dominique Raccah, CEO of the Naperville, Ill.-based publishing house that has become known...
View ArticleSimon & Schuster Partners to Create Shakespeare Apps
Related: Sourcebooks Wants to Reinvent How We Read Shakespeare With the Shakespearience[Press Release]Simon & Schuster and Folger Shakespeare Library team with Luminary Digital Media to create...
View ArticleSourcebooks Brings Personalized Storytelling to Berenstain Bears
[Press Release]Personalize Your Very Own Berenstain Bears BookWith Put Me In The Story Personalized Books, Make Your Child the Star of Treasured Children’s Stories!A personalized edition of The...
View ArticleSourcebooks Adds First Big Publisher Title to Put Me in the Story...
[Press Release] Nancy Tillman, Macmillan, and Sourcebooks Partner to Bring New York Times Bestseller On the Night You Were Born to Put Me In The Story Bestselling author and illustrator Nancy Tillman’s...
View ArticleSourcebooks Acquires Publisher, Retailer Simple Truths
[Press Release] Sourcebooks Acquires Simple Truths, Leading Publisher & eRetailer of Inspirational and Motivational Books Sourcebooks has acquired Naperville-based Simple Truths, best known for...
View ArticleSourcebooks and Wattpad Team up for Agile Publishing Partnership for Young...
A new partnership between Naperville, Ill.-based published Sourcebooks and Toronto-based writing community Wattpad will result in published print and ebooks and will bring Sourcebooks and its authors...
View ArticleSourcebooks Partners With Hello Kitty on Personalized Children’s Storybook...
[Press Release] Sanrio® and Sourcebooks Partner to Develop ‘Hello Kitty® and Me’ Series for the ‘Put Me In The Story’ ™ Personalized Children’s Book Platform Sanrio, the global lifestyle brand best...
View ArticleAn Argument Why Book Personalization Won’t Take Off
On the news that Sourcebooks had signed yet another deal to bring a big brand to its Put Me in the Story book personalization platform, I wanted to write a blog post about it for Forbes. To be frank, I...
View ArticleSourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah Named FutureBook’s Most Inspiring in Digital...
Related: Raccah on Book Personalization Come see Raccah speak at Digital Book World 2014 on learning from experimentation and failure. Register today! [Press Release] Sourcebooks Publisher and CEO...
View ArticleSimon & Schuster Releases New Interactive Shakespeare App
Related: Sourcebooks Wants to Reinvent Shakespeare With The Shakesperience [Press Email] Simon & Schuster is thrilled to share that Folger Shakespeare Library and Luminary Digital Media have...
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Ten Bold Predictions for Ebooks and Digital Publishing in 2014
Kindle as Magic Eight Ball. Illustration by Todd Goldstein, 2012 It’s been another exciting year for the publishing industry – perhaps the most dynamic in the history of the business. In 2013, all...
View ArticleDigital Engagement Is Key, Say Children’s and Young Adult Publishers
It wasn’t long ago that publishers thought of digital media primarily as a marketing tool for the books they were already publishing. No longer. Digital is at the center of several new initiatives in...
View ArticleSourcebooks Revenue Increases 22% in 2013
Sourcebooks had a good 2013, with overall revenue up 22% from last year. The Naperville, Ill.-based publisher experienced growth in all its verticals. General fiction and self-help grew 22% and 25%,...
View ArticleSourcebooks Adds Peanuts Brand to Put Me in the Story Personalization Platform
Related: Personalization in Publishing — Books Written Just for YouReport Bundle: Tracking Children and Their E-Reading Habits Over the Course of a Year[Press Release]Peanuts Worldwide LLC and...
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Amazon Brings Goodreads Closer
When Amazon acquired Goodreads last year in what was one of the biggest book publishing start-up exits so far (don’t forget this one), little changed at the largest book-focused social network. Since...
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