Publishing Trends

If you've signed up for PW Daily, or go to the Publishers Weekly website, these are some of the headlines you'll have seen in the last few days:

• Penguin Sees Major E-Book Sales Spike
• On Demand Titles Drive Jump in Book Output
• B&N Launches Mobile Friendly Retail Site

What's their common denominator? Non-traditional publishing platforms and operations. So while traditional publishing continues to be shaky, non-traditional publishing is ever-evolving and growing.

Publishing companies, as the above headlines indicate and as the recent BISG seminar indicated, are making appropriate adjustments. But professionals, especially print production ones, need to adjust as well. Personally, I've been taking web design and coding classes, signed up for alerts and blogs, and am just trying to keep abreast of all the changes and trends.

What adjustments have you made and which ones do you feel have or can be the most useful to keep your career on track?