SONY and Apple Instructive Example for Publishing Industry

F+W Media chairman and CEO officially opens DBW 2012. Photo credit: Babette Ross for Digital Book World

By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid

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“Your history is not a guarantee of your future,” said F+W chairman and CEO David Nussbaum to kick off the Digital Book World 2012 Conference and Expo.

SONY invented the Walkman and changed the music industry forever. The company, a huge electronics conglomerate that owned pieces all along the music supply chain, was not to control the industry’s future, said Nussbaum.

That honor fell to Apple, which changed everything again with the invention of the iPod and iTunes. The rest is history; an instructive example for the book publishing industry, which is going through massive changes all its own.

Digital Book World (disclosure: owned and operated by F+W Media, as is DigitalBookWorld.com) exists to address this change, according to Nussbaum. The book publishing industry’s long, storied past will not guarantee it a future.

Write to Jeremy Greenfield

Over 1,000 publishing executives at Digital Book World 2012. Photo credit: Chad Phelps

For more photos of Digitial Book World, follow Phelps on Twitter @chadx365.

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One thought on “SONY and Apple Instructive Example for Publishing Industry

  1. Luis Peazê

    Courtesy from Clinica Literaria, the agenda of the dbw conference & expo 2012 in ePub format at http://www.clinicaliteraria.com.br/dbw-agenda-2012-epub-courtesy-by-Luis-Peaze-to-digital-book-world.epub Comes with the TOC feature to access the exact time of certain presentation or event within the show, indexed by Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 download now into your eReader or Tablet, keep your self ontime and enjoy the show in loco or remotely. Cheers!

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