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Converting freeriding students to paying customers
Download the July issue of the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly (FAQ)! In earlier days, Brazilian students photocopied the books they needed – mainly because there was no alternative. A new service called...
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From Buying to Lending: What’s next for e-book libraries?
Download the July issue of the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly (FAQ)! “Use it, don’t own it!” – under this slogan borrowed from the “collaborative economy”, a number of lending models have recently emerged...
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Pubslush: Crowdfunding with a social conscience
Download the July issue of the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly (FAQ)! How can you make money from the “slush pile”? And, at the same time, keep readers and authors happy, while contributing to a great...
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Welcome to the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly: “Collaborative Economy and how to...
Download the July issue of the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly (FAQ)! The July issue of the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly (FAQ) is all about how to make the most of content: New business models are most...
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How do we start puzzling publishing together?
My childhood dining room table was always covered in a puzzle of some kind. A picture that was slowly being formed – a world map, a busy street, a beautiful landscape – built together by a rotating...
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Frankfurt Academy as a publisher? Holger Volland explains our E-Books….
The Frankfurt Academy organises conferences, workshops and intensive training sessions – both during the Book Fair in October and in other parts of the world throughout the year. A special series of...
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First stop Venus, next stop StoryDrive
Before Greg Broadmore was lead concept designer for the blockbuster hit District 9, a Frankfurt StoryDrive speaker and captain of the good ship transmedia, he was just another Kiwi kid from Whakatane,...
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The insider view on e-books: Emmanuel Benoit tells all
E-books used to be the “final frontier” – a Star Trekky sort of thing that only a few techno geeks got into. But e-books are no longer futuristic alien technology – they’re a very real part of our...
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Decision tree in autumn: which Frankfurt Academy event fits you best?
So many events…so little time. Which ones are musts, and which can you miss? The answer will be different for everyone, of course, but how do you decide? Well, with this little thing we’ve put together...
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Provinces of Neverland – the story industry meets at StoryDrive
Photo Credit: Stefan von den Driesch When StoryDrive started up this morning, they leapt straight to fourth gear, with opening speaker Jonathan Gottschall. The two-day conference is the first and one...
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StoryDriveChina 2013: Now we may look forward…
The late afternoon slot may not be the best loved, but at 4.30 on the first afternoon of StoryDrive China 2013, the cross-media guru from the US, Matt Costello, grabbed everyone’s attention with his...
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8.45am – The Publishers Training Programme in Ahmedabad
On a bright and sunny day in Ahmedabad, 17 senior publishers are preparing themselves to become students again. No matter what age, no matter what company they are from, they will all sit together, day...
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Innovation driven: Marketing in India at the IIM A
There was a time when the biggest competitor for a publisher was another publisher. But more players are entering the market, giving content for free, surfing easily on the digital wave and don’t see...
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The leaders of tomorrow at the Publishers Training Programme
By the time we go, we only experience a small part of what we are capable to do, said Prof. T.V. Rao this morning on the third day of our Publishers Training Programme. If you want to discover the...
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“Marketing for the future”
Two watch words: marketing and the future. What are the unexplored angles to marketing in the publishing industry that could become a practice in the future? This and other related questions are what...
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StoryDrive ASIA 2014 – Impressions from Day 1
Martina & Simon, Canada/ Korea present eat.your.kimchi, Photo by Christian Y. Schmidt The StoryDrive Asia (formerly StoryDrive China) conference was opened in the morning on Thursday May 29th in...
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Day 2 StoryDrive ASIA 2014 – Highlights and Conclusions
Presenter James Chau, Photo by Christian Y. SchmidtFriday, May 30th, Beijing. On the second day of StoryDrive Asia 2014, the conference fully lived up to its new branding: The stage was dominated by...
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Design meets Story Telling – Sven Ehmann from gestalten
Sven Ehmann at StoryDrive Asia, photo: Christian Y. SchmidtSven Ehmann from the Berlin based art and design book publisher gestalten (=which means ‘design’ in English) took part in a travel program for...
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WHEN A STORY GOES DIGITAL – A JOURNEY. The Transmedia Storytelling...
Transmedia Masterclass: Ralph Mollers August 26, 2014 Transmedia Storytelling Masterclass, JUMPSTART Ralph Mollers is a big name in the publishing industry and his workshop this morning proved exactly...
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Play to Learn
A workshop for Teachers in collaboration with Pratham Books, at the recently concluded JUMPSTART, in New Delhi on August 26, 2014 www.jumpstartfest.com If numbers indicated success, the Play to Learn...
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