Soles4Souls

A day after scrutiny of the organization in The Tennessean for possible inappropriate management actions, Soles4Souls announced a brace of business and organizational initiatives. The release is here.

Ingram Digital's Daniels on future publishing

The Tennessean's interview this morning with Ingram Digital Group COO Frank Daniels is worth a read, and a big of googling shows the depth of Daniels' expertise. Asked whether runaway sales of Amazon's Kindle e-reader (at left) this Christmas mean e-books have arrived, Daniels noted, "The beauty about the Kindle isn't that the device is great. The device is terrible." He went on to extol the wonder of the consumer-user experience via Amazon. For more detailed comments from Daniels, see his letter nominating himself to the International Digital Publishing Forum; his interview with The Futurist; and, this story in Book Business. Here's an industry pdf whitepaper on e-publishing.