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… Read More

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… Read More

It was just luck that I stumbled into the best session of the entire BookExpo last June in New York. The session was outside of the main program and it hadn’t been promoted. But I was between meetings and the… Read More

As publishers experiment with new e-book business models, one that seems to be rising in popularity is the e-book subscription service. Call it a digital-age book club. Related stories: – Are We Seeing the Rise of E-Book Subscription Services? –… Read More

“I have not found many Chinese books that have legs that can travel.” By Wenguang Huang I recently visited a large bookstore on a busy shopping street in China’s central city of Xian. If it hadn’t been for the big… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

The “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… Read More

What's the mood of FutureBook 2011? There are 550 delegates at the QEII Conference Centre today listening to talks from industry leaders such as Stephen Page, Evan Schnittman, Dominique Raccah, the brilliantly named Chris Book, Anobii's Matteo Berlucchi, and Penguin's… Read More

Dominique Raccah is President & CEO of Sourcebooks, Inc. Are an industry in transformation.  The transformation of the book is taking place right now – the most important transformation in our lifetimes.  Never has there been a bigger need for… Read More