At Workman Publishing, the main conference room is called the “homeroom,“ where staffers regularly settle into homey, slat-back chairs around a long wooden table. As an independent publisher, Workman takes pride in its unique family-type atmosphere and a publishing philosophy that differs significantly from that of the Big Five. Students in the NYU School of Professional Studies M.S. in Publishing: Digital and Print Media program received a personalized and close-up look at the Workman way during an industry visit to the company’s Varick Street headquarters. [Read more…] about The Workman Way: Indie and Innovative
Andrea Fleck-Nisbet
Digital Book World 2013: Change and Cooperation
During a Digital Book World 2013 panel discussion so crowded that some attendees sat on the floor, Matt MacInnis, Founder and CEO of the interactive book company Inkling, made a particularly perceptive comment: “It’s a miracle that the book was a thing the whole world agreed on.” That is, up until recently, it is fair to say that “the book” as we know it has retained the same static, linear structure across various nations and fields of study since the invention of the printing press 500 years ago. Going forward, MacInnis continued, “It’s not gonna be one monolithic thing serving the med. school book and serving the novel.” [Read more…] about Digital Book World 2013: Change and Cooperation