Going digital at hyperspeed
How Books Are Made
English - February 07, 2021 15:23 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBBooks Arts Business books ebooks publishing websites web development book production Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The pandemic has accelerated digitization in publishing to warp speed, and every book-maker in the world is wondering what that means for their business.
Some innovative publishers were going digital long ago, of course. Even three-generation family businesses like EBC (formerly the Eastern Book Company). As we hear in this episode with its director Raghunandan Malik, they’ve stayed ahead of the curve because they prioritise constant learning and an entrepreneurial mindset, and also because they’ve long known that ‘books’ are not the reason they exist. Rather, they provide information, and books are one smart way to do that.
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