US and international booksellers, libraries, schools, associations and online communities are looking to buy your digital books now. Listen in as leading digital media distributors tell us where the smart money is developing digital book businesses.

Michael Smith, Executive Directory of the International Digital Publishing Forum moderated this panel. Smith was joined by Andrew Weinstein,Vice President and General Manager of Retail Solutions at Ingram Book Co.; Bob Livosi, Founder of BooksonBoard.com; and Erica Lazzaro, General Counsel at OverDrive, Inc.

Bmally (pronounced Baa-lee) is the main character in The 10 Commandments, is the first book to be published in this series. Bmally explores Bible stories and applies biblical practices to the challenges our youngest children are facing in today’s society.

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Publishers and music companies also rely on MB&B to sell their products fast and to consistently increase their customer base…worldwide. When doing business with MB&B your products will be listed on every major database, plus your sales and title information will be emailed to all booksellers worldwide that make decisions.

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His new book, The Story of a Marriage, is a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco.

In this podcast episode, Greer discusses the process he went through the write The Story of a Marriage, his reaction to praise he’s received, and the valuable piece of advice that other authors have given him.

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The smartly packaged products include books, board games, toys and DVD’s that are distributed through proven direct marketing techniques that build upon historical data while taking advantage of the current trends in the market place.

Life’s Building Blocks products are based upon a group of kids called the Spruce Street Six: Honest Jake, Jessica the Brave, Calm Carlos, Lauren Never Quits, Jarrett the Just, and Kind Shawnie. Children will also be introduced to Zaki the Character Chameleon who helps the Spruce Street Six recognize morally charged situations and helps them make good decisions. This makes the learning experience fun, easy to relate to, and positive.

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Prelude to a Change of Mind, Stikmanz’s first book in The Hidden Lands of Nod series, was released in February 2007. Blending fantasy, folklore, speculative science and social critique, this beautifully crafted novel introduces the world of the Dvarsh and their interactions with our shared reality.

Stikmanz’s new novel is entitled Nod’s Way. Nod’s Way, the oracle of the Dvarsh, does not fit handily into familiar categories. It can be read as an authority or guide, like the Tao Te Ching, or it can be consulted as a fortunetelling tool, like the I Ching. Fleshing out the fictional world of the Dvarsh, a non-human people who have developed in tandem with homo sapiens, this central artifact of their culture represents the ancient wisdom and distilled values of the Dvarsh way of life.

This fully interactive work comes as a boxed set including a wisdom book, a journal, and three custom dice that allow readers to divine deeper meaning from the book than what is solely printed on the pages.

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In this episode, we speak with Craig Miller, LibreDigital Vice President and General Manager. Miller discusses the company’s innovation in the digital publishing space and the impressive growth of LibreDigital, which now works with numerous publishers including HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group USA, Harlequin, and Microsoft Press.

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In O’Connell’s new book, Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the Hospice, Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in this world of last moments.

In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O’Brien’s July July and Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, O’Connell’s characters in Evacuation Plan reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the gambler who played a risky game involving his wife and his ex-con father; the mortician who was an unwed father-to-be; the daughter whose dying father has no clue about the night her world spun out of control; the nurse who lived among aging neighbors and struggled to hold her own family in place; the drunk who magically encountered himself as a boy. Forgiveness, joy, making the final leap. Evacuation Plan is the story of a world in which the clock ticks off the final moments for all of us and makes of those moments a lifetime.

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In the original South Beach Diet book, Dr. Agatston changed the way America eats, with his right carbs, right fats approach. Now his mission is to change the way America lives, not only by helping people lose weight and eat healthfully but also by becoming more fit.

In this episode, Agatston discusses the evolution of the program over five years time, the new diet and exercise programs this new book offers, and what the future hold for The South Beach Diet.

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Doug also tells why Lifetouch’s expertise in photography and yearbooks has made them a viable commercial book manufacturing resource.

He’s hoping that not just a few Production Managers will check out their samples on display at booth #4229.

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In the publishing industry, they are most widely known for their IBS Bookmaster product. IBS Bookmaster software caters to the special requirements of academic, trade, specialized, niche and subscriptions based publishers and distributors. It incorporates a variety of specialized modules and features required by many publishers, such as royalties, returns management, subscriptions, editorial and book production, direct mail, academic sales, title management, title restrictions, dealing with buying groups and much more.

In this episode, we speak with April Berryman, IBS Marketing Communications Specialist, about Bookmaster and the other products IBS offers to the publishing industry.

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With a Ph.D. in Human Behavior and Leadership, Dr. Hartman has been teaching the world for over thirty years one basic truth: All life is about relationships. Dr. Hartman is currently a full-time business consultant and CEO of Hartman Communications. He leads the company and his consulting practice with the single purpose of educating people from all walks of life about themselves and how they can most effectively enhance their personal relationships and professional performance.

Dr. Hartman has written a new book, Playing Life to Win. Playing Life to Win teaches the four things you must do to live a legitimate life, making your life more meaningful to you and those around you.

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Impelsys helps its clients manage technology and electronic content delivery in a cost effective and resource efficient manner. This is done by leveraging global locations and publishing technology experts, as well as by using Impelsys’ software products that help in delivering electronic content into multiple electronic mediums.

At BEA 2008, Impelsys will be building on its already impressive offerings, which features products such as iPlatform and Virtual Pages. Their new platform solution, iNspire, offers publishers an easy and economical way to bring content online.

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In this episode, we talk to The Book Designers co-founder and Art Director Ian Shimkoviak. Shimkoviak discusses the creative process that goes into book design, which encompasses much more that just jacket artwork.

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His new book, Johnny Gruesome, is about a small town high school student with a passion for fast cars and loose women. When his murder by a drug dealer is made to look like an accident, Johnny returns from the grave as a vengeance crazed zombie vowing to teach the residents of Red Hill the meaning of true fear.

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Another milestone has been reached by Summit University Press with the August release of The Path to Attainment, the ninth and final chapter in the monumental Climb the Highest Mountain Series written by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. This 9-volume masterpiece that took over 33 years to complete is, essentially, a blueprint for how to graduate from Earth’s schoolroom and is a must-read for every seeker on the spiritual path.

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Now in its 31st year, the Stanford Publishing Course attracts participants from both the United States and from 30 countries abroad. Typical participants are editors and publishers, marketing and sales managers, art directors, photographers, and digital media specialists.

In this episode Holly Brady, director of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course, discusses the sweeping changes that are happening throughout the publishing industry and which skills and strategies are needed for what lies ahead.

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In Full Bloom: A Brain Education Guide for Successful Aging empowers older individuals to take control of their mental and physical lives by introducing
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