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

  1727 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’

  1285 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’

  2048 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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  Publishers Were Ready for Pew E-Book Study

  1826 readers This businessman seems ready for the starting gun. By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid The latest study from the Pew Internet and American Life project about e-reading and e-books found that those who read e-books are more avid readers, buy more books and read more often. These results made a splash in the book world, resulting

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  The question of free

  1982 readers From the Sourcebooks blog comes this article by Dominique Raccah. There are loads of things that are interesting about ebooks. One of them is that you can fairly easily change the price of an ebook. So how eBooks are priced and why has to be a major aspect of any publisher’s (or author’s)

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  Sourcebooks Wants to Reinvent Shakespeare With The Shakesperience

  727 readers Sourcebooks is trying to reinvent the way people learn Shakespeare. “The way we do it now is too hard,” said Dominique Raccah, CEO of the Naperville, Ill.-based publishing house that has become known for its digital innovation. Using digital technologies — primarily Apple’s iBooks Author and the Apple iBookstore — Sourcebooks has created a Shakespeare reading experience

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  Sourcebooks CEO Raccah: Agile Publishing Model New Path to Discoverability

  1590 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

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

  3377 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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  What is the ‘New’ Publisher?

  2782 readersThe “new publisher” is a creative intermediary between the author and reader, and not merely a gatekeeper By Sophie Rochester So who is “The New Publisher”? The Bookseller’s FutureBook conference offered several perspectives on the question. In a session chaired by Jonny Geller, literary agent and MD at Curtis Brown several panelists sought to offer answers, including John

• Sourcebooks Promotes Head of Digital, Expands Duties

  626 readers Sourcebooks continues to augment its ranks. The Naperville, Ill.-based publisher that has gained a reputation for innovation has promoted Lynn Dilger to the position of senior vice president, director of technology and content delivery. She has been with the company since 1999 and has steadily moved up the ladder since. She is responsible now for all