One word defines the digital publishing landscape: change. Keeping apace with all that’s unfolding with the fast growing e-book market, e-book pricing and the agency model, the launch of Google ebooks, the rise of social media and authors going it alone, just to mention a few, whilst also running your own business, is a major challenge. The London Book Fair’s annual conference in 2011 will help you keep informed.

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An exciting programme of keynotes, panel discussions and products showcases will be delivered under the chairmanship of Stephen Page, Faber and Faber.

Organiser:
The London Book Fair
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http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk

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According to a Brand Republic article, Apple’s newest gadget would feature digital versions of GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour magazines.

A test version of the technology magazine Wired is already been published but the first magazine to be available on the iPad will be men’s magazine GQ in April.

In May, users are expected to be able to download the June issues of Vanity Fair and Wired. IPad schedules for the remaining two magazines have not yet been confirmed.

The company is keen to find a perfect ad model and is hoping the iPad experiment will follow the digital success enjoyed by the Glamour.com website.

Several different pricing and advertising models are expected to be tested in search of the best way to advertise on the iPad.

Condé Nast’s plans follow the findings of a recent survey showing that the web has beaten newspapers in popularity in the US

The Pew Research Center report placed the web as the third most popular form of news after local and national TV.

The report said: “News awareness is becoming an anytime, anywhere, any device activity for those who want to stay informed.”

Source: Brand Republic, BBC

According to an article in The Independent, Barker & Taylor – who distribute 1 million books a year – has committed to making 180,000 titles available via the platform.

Developed in partnership with technologic futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, Blio is expected to be the next big thing in the e-reader industry.

According to Technorati.com blogger, Mike Shatzkin, Blio even has the potential to make the heads at Amazon, Google and Apple “scratch their heads”.

He wrote: “We in the book business will get to know it as a proprietary ebook platform that has capabilities nothing presented previously can match.

“Blio is a software client that can work on ‘any device with an operating system’, which means computers and iPhones, but not Kindles.

“Based only on the demo we saw from Baker & Taylor Senior VP Linda Gagnon last week, the presentation is the best I’ve ever seen. The type is crisp and sharp, it has full multiple-media functionality – video, graphics, TTV, links to the web.”

Kurzweil described Blio in an article by Publisher’s Weekly as “the ultimate expression of my work over the years.”

He added: “It will have wide distribution and will be available not only to the general reader and to the blind, but to the millions of people who suffer from Dyslexia.”