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J. Kirby Best has been named president and CEO of Ingram's Lightning Source subsidiary. Best takes over as CEO from Lightning chairman John Ingram who had been serving as president and CEO since the resignation of Ed Marino this spring. Best will report directly to John Ingram.
Since 1997, Best has been chairman of Publishing Solutions, Inc., a data collection and sales tracking service for the publishing industry. Prior to launching PSI, Best had been president and CEO of Royal Book Manufacturing.

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Update on e-Book Industry

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A quick update on e-book business that mentions eBook.web, which I wasn't familiar with. I note the growth stats are all quoted in percentages, a sure sign the numbers are really small. Still, it's good to see a little growth.

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Publishers Should Embrace Multi-Modal Publishing

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An interesting Q/A quote on multi-modal publishing from Terry Fisher speaking at iLAW last week.

[...]"When you finish writing a book (ILAW casebook), would you consider different models for publishing? The answer is yes. Foundation Press turns out to be reasonable about us releasing a version online, for free. Why is Foundation Press happy about this? As long as we don't make PDF files available in same pagination of the book, law students will be happy to have the book in "real" form. So yes, it's a little bit of experimentation."[...]
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