ePublishing Community Bulletin 1 November 2011

Share-worthy epub­lish­ing and dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing com­mu­ni­ty news, tuto­ri­als, arti­cles, resources, and mis­cel­lany I’ve run across.

  • 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 …