Even as more consumers buy dedicated digital reading devices and tablets, a hybrid market for books is developing in which readers will buy both print and digital books. That was one of the main conclusions from Verso Digital’s “2011 Survey of Book-Buying Behavior,” presented by the company’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple’s iPad has fairly quickly become a great tool for the workplace and in education and the company’s latest bid to revolutionize the market is with ebooks. Ebooks themselves are nothing new, but the existence of touchscreen devices such as the iPad means that the opportunities available to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Vintage Classics is working in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum to re-issue... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster is to publish two new novels by Kishwar Desai, along with a re-release of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Atlantic Media Company names Kevin Delaney as editor-in-chief of its still untitled digital global business brand. Delaney brings over a decade of experience at The Wall Street Journal to this developing role. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Adrian Sykes, with his publisher David Campbell, of Everyman's Library, is to donate a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In business for a total of 122 years, four well-known African-American–owned bookstores—Eso Won (22 years); Hue-Man (10 years); Marcus Book Stores (52 years); and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (37 years)—are no strangers to economic ups and downs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple today announced iBooks Author and iBooks 2, free applications that let educational publishers and teachers create and market K-12 textbooks and course... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The starting gun has been fired in the race to find Britain's best publishers, retailers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a b-to-b twist on the e-commerce craze, Penton launched an online auction site that can scale across all the verticals the company targets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a new study undertaken by comScore to support the release of a new digital ad measurement solution, the company found that 31 percent of ads are delivered, but not seen by consumers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
For an indie publisher to launch its first line with a $300 art book takes guts and vision, but that’s what Ammo Books’ founders Paul Norton and Steve Crist did in 2006 when they published 3,000 copies of Gonzo by Hunter S. Thompson and sold out in less than a year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
National Geographic will debut its version of the content archive this spring. Positioned as a resource for libraries and researchers, the National Geographic Magazine Archive will includes every issue of the publication from 1888 to 1994 (such as the June 1985 issue, pictured). Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany’s top fiction title at the end of December, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson climbed up from #5, supplanting previous chart-topper Inheritance (Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance was also #2 in Spain). Jonasson’s novel has sold more... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eight female novelists have made the Waterstones 11 2012 selection, with three novels each from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hutchinson has bought Lamb by Bonnie Nazdam, a début novel which won the 2011 Flaherty-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two months ago, I argued here on BetaNews that despite the ever-increasing chorus of negativity surrounding Apple, its best days are ahead. One of my reasons for my belief is the young consumer, where the Cupertino company is building a considerable amount of brand equity. Today's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a new cookery book from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Panarea Digital is an ebook, app, and mobile technology developer with a focus on education. The firm has produced interactive ebooks for Barnes & Noble and other companies, but Panarea Digital is now focused on Nearpod, a mobile learning platform that uses the iPad and other mobile devices... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
While the launch of Apple’s iBooks 2, its new multimedia textbook format, and iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has produced to create them, may indeed “reinvent the textbook,” there are a lot of questions to be answered before it does. That doesn’t mean that Apple didn’t put on quite... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]