Comments on: 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks on their way http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/ Martin Taylor on ebooks and media from a Downunder perspective Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: New Zealand’s 1000 Great NZ Ebooks take a big step forward http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-7602 New Zealand’s 1000 Great NZ Ebooks take a big step forward Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:46:16 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-7602 [...] is the announcement of a milestone in making the 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks project a reality in [...] [...] is the announcement of a milestone in making the 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks project a reality in [...]

]]> By: Amazon’s global Kindle move is a game changer http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-7601 Amazon’s global Kindle move is a game changer Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:06:17 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-7601 [...] It’s our job now to make sure they’re reading local as well as international books. In this regard, the announcement this week that New Zealand copyright collective Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) will lead the charge to get New Zealand books digitised and licensed to groups such as libraries, booksellers and others, couldn’t come soon enough. I’ll be part of that through the work we’ve been doing with the Digital Publishing Forum and the 1000 Great New Zealand Ebooks initiative. [...] [...] It’s our job now to make sure they’re reading local as well as international books. In this regard, the announcement this week that New Zealand copyright collective Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) will lead the charge to get New Zealand books digitised and licensed to groups such as libraries, booksellers and others, couldn’t come soon enough. I’ll be part of that through the work we’ve been doing with the Digital Publishing Forum and the 1000 Great New Zealand Ebooks initiative. [...]

]]> By: New Zealand gets its first 1000 ebooks - in EPUB | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-6887 New Zealand gets its first 1000 ebooks - in EPUB | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:53:41 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-6887 [...] is the same format that commercial New Zealand publishers are planning to use so it greatly expands the available market here. And there are some real classic gems. Digg us! [...] [...] is the same format that commercial New Zealand publishers are planning to use so it greatly expands the available market here. And there are some real classic gems. Digg us! [...]

]]> By: Looks like New Zealand already has its first 1000 ebooks http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-6868 Looks like New Zealand already has its first 1000 ebooks Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:39:35 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-6868 [...] is the same format that commercial New Zealand publishers are planning to use so it greatly expands the available market here. And there are some real classic gems. Here’s [...] [...] is the same format that commercial New Zealand publishers are planning to use so it greatly expands the available market here. And there are some real classic gems. Here’s [...]

]]> By: Amit Vohra http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-5619 Amit Vohra Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:14:08 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-5619 Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Amit Vohra and I am the VP Sales with Planman Technologies, a premier offshore service content conversion and publishing services provider. We collaborate with publishers and content aggregators such as Greenwood Publishing, World Bank Publications and leading organizations like SPIE, JSTOR and OCLC to help them with conversion projects from print & electronic files into proprietary XML formats and different eBook formats such as ePub, mobipocket etc. I was hoping that in your current role with this initiative (1000 great New Zealand eBooks project, there would be potential opportunities for us to collaborate together. Please let me know if this is a possibility. Many thanks for your time and attention. Best Regards Amit Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Amit Vohra and I am the VP Sales with Planman Technologies, a premier offshore service content conversion and publishing services provider.

We collaborate with publishers and content aggregators such as Greenwood Publishing, World Bank Publications and leading organizations like SPIE, JSTOR and OCLC to help them with conversion projects from print & electronic files into proprietary XML formats and different eBook formats such as ePub, mobipocket etc.

I was hoping that in your current role with this initiative (1000 great New Zealand eBooks project, there would be potential opportunities for us to collaborate together.

Please let me know if this is a possibility. Many thanks for your time and attention.

Best Regards

Amit

]]> By: eBooks in New Zealand | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-5564 eBooks in New Zealand | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:08:36 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-5564 [...] wish I could have attended this! From Martin Taylor’s blog: Publishers at last week’s Future of the Book conference in Auckland are getting behind an [...] [...] wish I could have attended this! From Martin Taylor’s blog: Publishers at last week’s Future of the Book conference in Auckland are getting behind an [...]

]]> By: Keith Mockett http://activitypress.com/2009/06/30/1000-great-new-zealand-ebooks-on-their-way/comment-page-1/#comment-5504 Keith Mockett Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:40:06 +0000 http://activitypress.com/?p=552#comment-5504 Hi Martin. Well done. Sounds like the conference was very productive. I will watch with interest how this develops. As a non-pbook publisher can I suggest to publishers that this presents a real opportunity with regard to backlist. It is often difficult to find copies of backlist titles and printing short-runs for declining demand must be expensive and inefficient (and wasteful). Surely eBooks are the way to go for such titles. It can give them a new lease of commercial life. Hi Martin. Well done. Sounds like the conference was very productive. I will watch with interest how this develops. As a non-pbook publisher can I suggest to publishers that this presents a real opportunity with regard to backlist. It is often difficult to find copies of backlist titles and printing short-runs for declining demand must be expensive and inefficient (and wasteful). Surely eBooks are the way to go for such titles. It can give them a new lease of commercial life.

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