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GoodBuyAuto raises Eur 1.5mln seed capital with the support of All Brain
The heaviest seed capital round in Italy since 15 months. All Brain pivotal to design and execute the fund-raising strategy...
The myth of the long tail in the digital book economy – Toulouse School of Economics
Digital books and their impact on content The Jean-Jacques Laffont Digital Chair Toulouse School of Economics 6, January 2016...
Global Publishing Leaders 2015: RCS Libri
Global Publishing Leaders 2015: RCS Libri 26.06.2015 | “RCS Libri has been the leader in digital innovation”, said Marcello Vena,...
Digital Book Publishing : a European Vision ?
XV Assises du livre numérique – Syndicat national de l’édition (SNE) Digital Book Publishing : a European Vision ?...
Blasting News wins the Salamanders in a Dragons’ Den Competition at the INSEAD ALUMNI FORUM EUROPE 2015
The Salamanders in a Dragons’ Den prize awarded by leading investors, entrepreneurs and INSEAD professors. 16.05.2015 | Blasting News won on...
PUBLISHERS FORUM 2015 – Know Your Customer and Don‘t Be Afraid
Know Your Customer and Don‘t Be Afraid. How to Reconstruct Publishing: Competing Visions, Channels and Audiences. 25.04.2015 | With the transformation...
LBF 2015 – DISPELLING THE MYTH OF THE LONG TAIL
Seminar at the London Book Fair 2015: dispelling the myth of the long tail in the economy of digital...
Mondadori – RCS Libri: An Italian Publishing Coup in the Making?
First published on http://publishingperspectives.com/ Mondadori – RCS Libri 03.17.2015 | Marcello Vena is interviewed on the recent offer Mondadori has...
Mobile Publishing
First published on http://thoughtcatalog.com/ 03.04.2015 | For seizing a real mobile publishing opportunity, timing is everything; it’s easy to...
The digital book economy: what happens next?
First published on http://www.internationalpublishers.org/ 03.03.2015 | With smartphone penetration rates soaring, what can publishers do to kickstart mobile commerce...
Weighing Android and iOS in the ebook ecosystem
First published on www.digitalbookworld.com 02.24.2015 | What does the Android iOS race mean for ebook publishers trying to calibrate...
The book market in Italy. Trends, Opportunities and Forecast 2014-2016
The trade book market in Italy. Data and market trends 2014. Forecast for 2015 and 2016. All Brain’s market research...
Italian Ebook Market Estimated to Grow 30-40% in 2015
First published on http://publishingperspectives.com 02.02.2015 | Earlier this month, Marcello Vena of AllBrain in Milan, Italy presented the results of his recent...
DBW 2015 – Global Market Spotlight: Italy
Global Market Spotlight: Italy 01.12.2015 | The US and the English-speaking world have been the leaders in ebook development, but the...
Revisiting the Long Tail Theory as Applied to Ebooks
First published on http://publishingperspectives.com The myth of the Long Tail for ebooks may be fading away as the digital book...
How Amazon Could Disrupt Anew
First published on www.digitalbookworld.com 12.23.2014 | Could an established player like Amazon again disrupt the publishing world the way it...
Five Digital Publishing Questions for Marcello Vena
First published on www.digitalbookworld.com 12.23.2014 | The Digital Book World Conference + Expo, kicking off on January 13, 2015 is packed...
eBooks unlimited – New business, products and trends
The 7th Germany’s ebook conference The ebook conference organized by Akademie der Deutschen Medien (the leading German Media Academy)...
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription programme launches in Spain and Italy
First published on www.thebookseller.com 11.05.2014 | On Tuesday (4th November) Amazon announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited (KU) in...
Germany’s Tolino partners with Messaggerie Italiane: An open-ended future?
First published on www.thebookseller.com 10.22.2014 | Today Tolino starts its first big international challenge thanks to a strategic all-comprehensive...
Are data and sales the book publishing’s driving forces?
First published on blog.reedsy.com Reedsy was at The Frankfurt Book Fair this year. The conferences from the self-publishing program...
Big Data: Dispelling the Myths About One of Publishing’s Hottest Buzzwords
Big Data, seriously ? 10.16.2014 | Big data was one of Frankfurt Book Fair’s hottest topics of discussion this year...
Kindle Scout: an experiment to add new connections between readers and authors
10.15.2014 | Amazon has just launched Kindle Scout, a new crowd-sourced publishing programme. Kindle Scout is a new offer...
Frankfurt Book Fair: Is Publishing all about sales?
Is Publishing all about Sales? 10.01.2014 | Today, our younger talent in the publishing-house workforce arrives for work much as has...
The Next Chapter: Who Has Time For Publishing’s Long Tail?
9.24.2014 | The Next Chapter is the premier international conference on digital book publishing in Scandinavia. The event with the title...
The Next Chapter: Spread the word
9.22.2014 | In order to better understand the vast and ever-expanding world of online content, new skills are becoming very important....
The Lost Tail
9.3.2014 | The myth of the Long Tail is possibly fading away as the digital book market grows, and it is...
Marcello Vena: All Brain’s chief future officer
first published on www.thebookseller.com 8.14.2014 | From Big Ideas to a big move. Innovation isn’t the holy grail of the moment only...
Vena sets up leadership company
7.31.2014 | Digital publishing expert Marcello Vena has set up a new “on-demand” leadership services company called All Brain....
The world first on-demand leadership service in the media industry starts global operations in September 2014
Innovation veteran and former RCS Mediagroup executive Marcello Vena launches a brand-new consulting service for C-level executives. It’s the...
Ebooks And The Long Tail: It’s Still All About Blockbusters
6.23.2014 | One of the many promises of digital distribution is that everything can be found, nothing goes out...
The Lost Tail: The Myth of Book Publishing’s Long Tail
6.23.2014 | The myth of the Long Tail is possibly fading away as the digital book market grows, and...
New data on the Long Tail impact suggests rethinking history and ideas about the future of publishing
6.25.2014 | So the Long Tail for books has been a topic of conversation for most of the past...
BigJump Rizzoli Winner already published in print
6.7.2014 | Only 4 months from the submission of the draft manuscript to the availability in bookshops of the...
Rizzoli Unveils Three Category Winners of BigJump Literary Award, Launched in Italy with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
6.9.2014 | More than 500 self-published novels participating and more than 500,000 views in the BigJump dedicated section on...
Rizzoli and Amazon launch BigJump, a Literary Award for unpublished Novels in Italy
first published on www.thebookseller.com 1.15.2014 | Rizzoli, Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and the Italian startup 20lines launched BigJump,...
Innovative Publishing Out of Italy’s Rizzoli
4.18.2014 | Despite this nascent state of the market, Vena has been quietly building an innovation powerhouse at Rizzoli…
Tradition and innovation: the recipe for success
4.7.2014 | The human capital is key. For innovation even more. The willingness and ability to constantly learn, unlearn...
Rizzoli Launches First Immersive Narrative Ebook Collection for Kids at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
3.24.2014 | Once upon a time there were a lot of fairy tales all over the globe. Tales were told...
Launching open value-added bundles in Italy (pbook+ebook)
first published on www.thebookseller.com 12.17.2013 | Italian RCS Libri publishing group has just launched “110 Libri+” (literally 110 Books+),...
Co-Publishing: The Third Way between Traditional Publishing and Self-Publishing ?
first published on www.thebookseller.com 10.21.2013 | Thanks to the digital revolution new opportunities have arisen for both the traditional...
Can Turning Publishing Into a Competition Pay?
11.5.2013 | This is a story about a clever way of bringing established, big-selling authors together with emerging writers,...
Now HERE is an experiment that looks like it worked and is worthy of replication
10.31.2013 | Now Italy’s RCS Libri has come up with a really imaginative use of no-inventory publishing — also in a...
ebook streaming on Pinterest. A new service for book lovers just launched by RCS Libri in Italy
first published on www.bookseller.com 5.27.2013 | With the rise of Social Media, publishers, authors, journalists and bloggers are jumping...
All aboard for ebooks: Publisher brings free titles to trains
12.21.2012 | RCS Libri, the second largest book publisher in Italy, has partnered with Italian train company NTV to...
Italian publisher offers commuters free ebooks
12.21.2012 | RCS Libri is set to offer commuters free access to ebooks as part of a strategy to...