Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Who’s in control of the BookTok juggernaut? What does it take to ban a book in the US?…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What do book-summary apps demonstrate about our entertainment habits? If per-household book spending is still falling, where should…Continue Reading
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. A breakdown of the differences in capabilities and sales expectations with ebooks, enhanced ebooks, and apps. The 2013 holiday…Continue Reading
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Tagged Amazon, America, apps, David Godwin, ebooks, enhanced ebooks, families and media project, india, libraries, Microsoft, tablets
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Goodreads saw impressive growth in 2013, doubling their users for the second time in two years. Pitchfork, the Los Angeles…Continue Reading
As dead as August is on the rest of the world’s cultural calendar, there might well be no more important month in Scotland. In addition to the Fringe Theater Festival, every August brings the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), this year running August 11-27. With over 800 authors and around a quarter of a million…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Guthrie, apps, Arthur Conan Doyle, authors, Blasted Heath, Denise Mina, digital-first publishers, DRM, Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Book Festival, festivals, Frances Sutton, Fringe Theatre Festival, Ian Rankin, international, iTunes, J. K. Rowling, Kyle MacRae, Macbeth, Marian Sinclair, Miranda Anderson, Palimpsest, Publishing Scotland, Robert Burns, Sara Hunt, Saraband, Scotland, The Electric Bookshop, The Guardian, University of Edinburgh, Val McDermid
“If you don’t eat your own children, someone else will”: That’s how Michael Mace, Principal of the Silicon Valley–based Rubicon Consulting, began his presentation, “Check Out My Scars: Seven Lessons from the Failure of E-Books in 2000, and What They Mean to the Future of Electronic Publishing,” at the 2010 O’Reilly Tools of Change for…Continue Reading
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Though we’ve recently noticed a few more Kindles on the subway, mobile phones are infinitely more common. As more consumers choose to read e-books on their smartphones rather than purchase standalone e-reading devices, publishers are working to create apps and other iPhone-ready content. Flurry, a company that provides analytics to mobile phone application developers, found…Continue Reading
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Tagged Andrew Savikas, Android, apps, Brent Lewis, Curious George Dictionary, Daniel X, David Langevin, David Pogue, EPUB, Flurry, Hachette, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Indigo, iPhone, iTunes, Kindle, L.A. Candy, Lauren Conrad, Lexcycle, Lonely Planet, Maja Thomas, Mark Coker, Matthew Cashmore, Maximum Ride, mobile market, mobile phones, O'Reilly, Poppy, Quick Response Code, Safari Books, ScrollMotion, Shel Silverstein, Shortcovers, smartphones, Smashwords, Stanza, Susan Katz, The Polar Express, Twilight, Wattpad
By Ariel Aberg-Riger I love Google. Like, a lot. I use Google Reader. And Gmail. And Google Docs. And Google Calendar. And Google Analytics. I happily let Google see everything I do. I eagerly await the day Google search can be fused to my brain. So, when I first heard the rumors about Google’s mobile…Continue Reading
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Tagged Android, apps, Ariel Aberg-Riger, barcodes, e-readers, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Books, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google phone, Google Reader, iPhone, iTunes, open source, T-Mobile
