Watch highlights from the 2013 FutureBook Conference. Book your place for this year's conference here Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
French digital entrepreneurs have launched Storyplayr, a children’s ebook library for 3-8-year-olds. The post Storyplayr: Kid’s Ebook Subscriptions for France appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The social network seems to have decided to host content itself rather than send users to other websites Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Students at MIT, Stanford, and elsewhere are learning to build technology products with user well-being in mind.Facebook sparked outrage this summer when it published results of a study conducted on unwitting users. The study looked at whether people who were shown more positive or negative... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is making it easier for users to unfollow brand and publisher pages, which will have a polarizing effect on distribution. The post What Facebook’s new unfollow feature means for brands, publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebook readers reveal the most highlighted passages in Harry Potter, the Bible, Lord of the Rings and many more Its an odd sensation to be reading an ebook and to suddenly notice that thanks to the providers data-tracking software youre on a passage that other people have already highlighted. I... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Requests for Facebook user information from law enforcement are up 24% since 2013.Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter siphon up untold gigabytes of user data, which makes them obvious targets for governments and law enforcement agencies looking to gather evidence. This week in a bid for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cornerstone today releases an enhanced digital edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s book was released as an ebook for the first time in July, after Cornerstone acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to the ebook and digital audio. The special enhanced digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the 2012 election, President Barack Obama's digital campaign director Teddy Goff told Time magazine that a tool allowing Obama for America to access the Facebook friends of its supporters "will wind up being the most groundbreaking piece of technology developed for this campaign." This is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The social network's plans to control even more of the media industry squeezed a collective gasp out of publishers. Was that a last breath?Facebook recently wrapped up a "listening tour," hoping to lure publishers across the United States to deliver their content pages and news feeds to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The music, film and TV industries have all undergone radical transformations over the last fifteen years. In contrast, the publishing industry is only now feeling the full force of technological change. Ebooks and ereaders are changing consumers' reading habits and throwing up serious questions... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The internet powerhouses are using their billions to challenge in sectors far removed from their original business modelsThe webs biggest consumer companies make the bulk of their incomes, and have built up vast assets, from targeted advertising. It accounts for around 90% of Facebooks revenue... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a fast-changing industry like publishing, the simple things are often the most useful. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has launched a new version of Google Play Books that it hopes will make for a better reading experience for nonfiction titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Given that links appear to be more clickable when shared on Facebook, online publishers have scrambled to become savvy gamers of Facebook’s News Feed, seeking to divine the secret rules that push some stories higher than others. But all this genuflection at the altar of Facebook’s algorithms may... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook's plan to help publishers monetize on mobile sends a shiver down publishers' spines. The post Facebook offers publishers a Faustian bargain appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
We need innovation, and Kindle Unlimited might not be publishers’ best option, argues 24symbols co-founder, Justo Hidalgo. The post A “Critical Moment” for Ebook Subscription Services appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time in the five years of the FutureBook Digital Census, more respondents say they commonly read on an iPad (41.9%) than do a Kindle (37.9%). However, Amazon is still by far the dominant retail site for buying ebooks. The results, from FutureBook’s Digital Census completed by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers and retailers will aim to prevent ebook prices from soaring when a new European-wide VAT law on digital products is introduced on 1st January. Following a European Commission ruling dating back to 2008, ebooks and other digital services—including broadcasting and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
How do authors create their digital book files and what influence does that process have on the final content? Speakers at Books in Browsers 2014 address this topic. The post Consider the Ebook Format: Books in Browsers V appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]