At CONTEC: Content, Technology...and Questions

At CONTEC: Content, Technology...and Questions In its energetic first outing, @CONTEC 2013 Conference looked at the challenges to publishing and educational services, bookselling, and social reading.

Editorial: When Passion Equals Profit From the Frankfurt Book Fair, Ed Nawotka wonders, why have so many startups in publishing never made it beyond beta?

From the Frankfurt Book Fair: Download: Wednesday’s Frankfurt Show Daily 2013 Publishing Perspectives' show daily for this Wednesday at the Frankfurt Book Fair includes conference reports and info on Brazil's Guest of Honor exhibition. Videos from Frankfurt: CONTEC, Publishers Launch and More The Publishing Perspectives video team attended CONTEC Frankfurt and Publishers Launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair to find out what the crowds were buzzing about. Rights Directors Identify New Revenue Streams At the Frankfurt Book Fair's annual International Rights Directors Meeting, experts identified new opportunities for publishers to increase their revenue from rights. Candid Facts from Amazon’s Russ Grandinetti At the Frankfurt Book Fair, VP of Kindle Content, Russ Grandinetti, shared some numbers about consumer usage of Kindle ebooks around the world. STM Publishing Meets "Tarzan Economics" At the annual conference of the International STM Association just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Jim Griffin advised publishers to get serious about exploiting the rights they own.