The Future of Publishing and Technology: Read All About It!

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: In 1440 – 600 years after The Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest printed book – Gutenberg invented the wooden mass-printing press. In 1845 Richard Hoe invented the rotary press and first paperback. In 1993, Peter James published the thriller Host on 2 floppy disks – the first electronic novel – and BiblioBooks launched a website to sell eBooks. Along came the 2gb Kindle, able to hold 1,100 books. Today, print books still make up 65+% of sales in the $113Bn annual book market. To be competitive, some print books have covers with gold gilded edges, metal and transparent overlays, and some eBooks let you choose adventure story lines and have animated and interactive covers. [adazing.com] The Buzz 2: “When people ask me about the future of publishing, my answer always starts with: There’s no such thing as a single future of publishing … traditional publishers release fewer nonfiction books…total number of nonfiction books is going way up because more Authors are self-publishing.” [scribemedia.com Tucker Max is co-founder of Scribe] We’ll ask publisher/writer Patricia Wooster, novelists Matt Cost and BJ Magnani, and publisher Eddie Vincent for their take on The Future of Publishing and Technology: Read All About It!

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's
0:09.4	future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.3	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:21.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:27.4	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:31.1	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:35.9	Bonnie D. in the house, I can never remember which way I said was the future. So we'll just say
0:40.3	it's out there somewhere. Everybody says the future is already here and we'll give you an answer to that at the end of the show. We have an opinion.
0:47.3	So here we are. We're hoping we don't, we have solving a freezing issue on my Mac, but life is pretty good. We just froze on LinkedIn for a second here, but I'm going to keep talking. So my guests get used to the new situation on live radio. Here we are. We're back. So let me give you my opening. This is part three, four, five. I can't even remember I've had these guests on before many times because it's a hot topic and it will stay that way for a long time. Let's do a history lesson.
1:11.7	The Diamond Sutra, okay?
1:14.1	I didn't say the other sutra.
1:15.3	The Diamond Sutra is the world's oldest printed book published 1,100 years ago.
1:20.5	Just think about that.
1:22.0	600 years later, now I've got a timeline for you in the year 1440,
1:26.9	a German gentleman named Johann Gutenberg. You've heard of him, invented the printing field.
1:31.3	1993, somebody named Peter James had the nerve to publish a thriller host on two floppy discs,
1:39.3	a thriller book, and it was the world's first electronic novel.
1:42.3	We call it an e-book. And something called Bibliob Books
1:45.7	launched a website. They were selling e-books. Hooray. And then along came the Kindle. And the Kindle had two
1:51.0	gigabytes of storage and it could hold over a thousand books. Eddie, I want you to smile on that one.
1:56.3	Surprise. Today, print books still make up more than 65% of the sales.
2:01.6	The book market, those of you who love to buy books, is more than $113 billion a year.
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