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  Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah: ‘Data Works Better Than Your Gut’

  1715 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Dominique Raccah is a data-driven publisher. As CEO of Sourcebooks, a Naperville, IL-based publishing company with nearly 100 employees, Raccah oversees a team that makes decisions about everything from what books to acquire to cover art to marketing messages. An increasing number of those decisions are being made using

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  Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah: ‘Data Works Better Than Your Gut’

  1270 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Dominique Raccah is a data-driven publisher. As CEO of Sourcebooks, a Naperville, IL-based publishing company with nearly 100 employees, Raccah oversees a team that makes decisions about everything from what books to acquire to cover art to marketing messages. An increasing number of those decisions are being made using

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  Sourcebooks CEO Raccah: Agile Publishing Model New Path to Discoverability

  1567 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid — Join the conversation! DBW Wednesday only 1-day conference rate: $595, Sheraton Hotel, 2nd Fl., 811 7th Ave., NYC — Building audience participation before the writing and publication of a book is a way to help readers discover new work, according to Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah speaking on a panel

• Inspired by Sourcebooks, Indie Author Dabbles With Agile Publishing

  731 readers Inspired by agile publishing experiments at innovative publisher Sourcebooks, indie author Sabrina Ricci has decided to engage in an agile publishing experiment of her own. Ricci has launched The2012ebook.com and is building a community that is giving her feedback that she is using to craft her next story, which is slated for publication on Dec. 21,

• Digital Reading: Checking In with Sourcebooks’ Peter Lynch on the Agile Experiment.

  375 readers Several weeks ago in a DBW webcast we heard from editor Peter Lynch of about the new agile book development experiment going on at Sourcebooks this spring.  “Entering the Shift Age,”  by futurist David Houle, would be posted online as sections were written, open for comment and then subsequent revision by the author and

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  E-books accelerate towards the tipping point

  1225 readersAt TOC Frankfurt last October SourceBooks' publisher Dominique Raccah made the point that digital was happening faster than anyone had imagined. She has now revised her forecast: upwards. Here i...

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  David Houle at DBW: ‘Explosion of Choice’ Gives Power to Readers

  458 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The explosion of consumer choice has shifted power to consumers and away from producers, said David Houle, a futurist and author of the book The Shift Age and the keynote speaker at the Digital Book World Conference this morning in New York. Publishers sitting in the audience, who

• First Section of Sourcebooks Agile Publishing Experiment Now Available

  578 readers The experiment in agile publishing that Naperville-Ill.-based publisher Sourcebooks commenced at Digital Book World 2012 is swiftly coming to fruition. The first section of the company’s upcoming title Entering the Shift Age by David Houle is available today on NetGalley. Over the past several months, the company has been releasing chapters of the book on EntertheShiftAge.com, engaging

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  #BEA11: Publishers Debate Future of Enhanced E-books at IDPF Conferen

  3359 readersBy Hannah Johnson In a roundtable discussion at the IDPF Digital Book Conference, panelists — Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury), Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks) and Richard Nash (Red Lemonade, Cursor) — discussed the future of the publishing business by way of enhanced e-books and apps. Raccah, the CEO of mid-sized publisher Sourcebooks, was the lone champion of both enhanced e-books

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  Three Pieces of Consumer Data Publishers Need and What To Do With Them

  553 readers Customer feedback, accurate contact information, and conversion statistics are essential consumer data for publishers. Publishing insiders speaking at our Digital Book World 2013 Conference + Expo in January called out those three sorts of data as essential. Businesses and publishers can use that data to develop strategy in three particular areas, according to David Rogers, author