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- Enter Your eBook into the Publishing Innovation Awards | Deadline TOMORROW Midnight #eprdctn
If your ebook, enhanced ebook or book app presents solid design that keeps readability front and center, or improves the reading experience using interactive or social elements, you must act now to receive the recognition your work deserves.
… - How to Create an Effective Press Kit for Your Book
Most authors think of press or media kits as a set of materials they mail to newspaper reporters, radio and TV hosts, or other media people. While physical media kits are still used, they require authors to track down the media experts to mail …
- Is an 80% ebook world for straight text really in sight?
The recent news that digital revenues have reached approximately 20% at some of the Big Six houses makes me believe that we are on the verge of a tectonic shift in the industry. It provoked me to think through the logical extension of well-esta…
- Magazine Publishers Look to Where Digital is Booming: The Book Business
After the initial flurry of excitement surrounding the release of their digital editions, magazine publishers are now beginning to focus on the strategies behind the products. In addition to complete digital editions, many are seeking other ave…
- First Ever Reading on Screen Versus Print Study Concludes No Difference
This is one of the results of the world’s first reading study of its kind undertaken by the Research Unit Media Convergence of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in cooperation with MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH.…
- Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been…
- iPad rivals: Thrice bitten, still not shy
After the iPad appeared last year and defied critics’ initial scepticism by selling in the squillions, it was inevitable that Apple’s competitors would try to cash in on its success with tablets of their own. Yet I don’t think even Apple …