Live Podcast today on eBook Wars

The eBook market is still relatively small, but the eBook wars are making the news these days, whether it's MacMillan against Amazon, or the iPad against the Kindle.

If you want to learn more about the eBook wars, we recommend on a very interesting podcast that will take place today.

This is a special Beyond the Book live podcast (http://beyondthebookcast.com/live-webcast/), taking place this Wednesday, Feb. 10^th from 2PM – 3PM EST. During the podcast, Copyright Clearance Center’s Chris Kenneally will be examining the eBook Wars, which are taking shape with MacMillan challenging Amazon and the rise of eReaders and the iPad. Chris and his panelists will look at all sides of the e-book story and what future battles may bring to the print and digital marketplace. The podcast will air live on BlogTalkRadio: http://bit.ly/drJipN

Joining Chris are:

· Andrew Albanese, features editor at Publishers Weekly;
Sara Nelson, Books Editor, “O” Magazine;
Brian O’Leary, Founder & Principal, Magellan Media Partners; and
Mike Shatzkin, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company, Inc.,

During the podcast, Chris will also be taking phone calls at 646-378-1949.

This is promising to be a very interesting podcast so don't miss it!

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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Getting Ready for Digital Book World 2010 with Mike Shatzkin & Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

A new “Beyond the Book” podcast is released, offering a special preview of first-time conference Digital Book World that kicks off next week in New York City.

Conference chair and industry pundit Mike Shatzkin of the Idea Logical Company, and colleague Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, join host Chris Kenneally to discuss the conference, e-books, e-readers and the overall impact of digital change on the publishing industry.

I found it very a interesting conversation about one of the hottest issues today in the publishing market (even though there was no direct mention "green" related consequences of the digital revolution in the book market..).

Here's just one quote to give you a taste of what you'll hear. This is a quote from Mike Shatzkin:

I think unsettling and disturbing would probably be a far more accurate description than happy. I don’t think that the business that we’ve known for – pretty consistently operated in the same way for the last 50 or 75 years is not going to be particularly recognizable in another five or 10 years, and that can’t make people who have been succeeding in the business as it was very comfortable.

What I would say is that music and newspaper and magazines for that matter had a special problem that’s different from books, which is that they – newspapers and music always sold customers things they didn’t want to buy. You wanted three songs, they sold you an album with 12. You buy the Boston Globe for six different particular things in it, but they sold you 85 other things that you didn’t buy it for.

The podcast can be heard here: http://beyondthebookcast.com/at-digital-book-world-a-is-for-audience/.

A full transcript of the conversation is available here: http://www.beyondthebookcast.com/wp-images/DBWPreviewTranscript.pdf

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: promoting sustainable reading!

An interview with Raz Godelnik on the podcast of 'Clean Green Winnipeg'

I had the pleasure to be interviewed on the podcast of Marlo Boux of the blog Clean Green Winnipeg.

We had a chat on Eco-Libris and how you can green your holidays with a couple of tips from the great book "Celebrate Green!"

You can listen to it right here. You can also find it at http://www.cleangreenwinnipeg.com/?p=603

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris
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Eco-Libris on the podcast 'The Book of Life'

The book of life is a great podcast site about "jewish people and the books we read".

It is run by Heidi Estrin, who hosts The Book of Life podcast and also directs the library at Congregation B'nai Israel in Boca Raton, Florida.

Heidi published today a podcast named 'Empowerment for the New Year' that offers themes of empowerment, including an interview with me on Eco-Libris, sustainable reading and how eco-conscious readers can go green.

It was a pleasure to talk on this podcast that is also in the sign of the upcoming Tu Bishvat, the Israeli holiday celebrating the New Year of the Trees.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Yours,

Raz @ Eco-Libris

Eco-Libris: plant a tree for every book you read!