Digital Publishing: Mobile vs. App is the Wrong Question

In January, CNN announced staggering growth in the number of users accessing their content on mobile devices. For 2013, the company averaged 30 million monthly unique visitors on mobile, an increase of 40 percent over 2012.     ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reuters dodges questions about death of 17-year-old photographer in Syria

Molhem Barakat, a freelance photographer reputed to be just 17 years old, has been killed while covering the conflict in Syria.He died on Friday (20 December) in Aleppo during a battle at Kindi hospital between rebel groups and forces loyal to the president, Bashar al-Assad.Dozens of Barakat's... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lion Stone: Artisanal Books in a Digital Age

A publisher continues to hand-bind and hand-sew books that also function as works of art. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An app to check your cholesterol is the latest way smartphones are evolving into medical devices

On mobile phones, health, and fitness are rapidly becoming big business. The latest idea? A concept from researchers at Cornell which demonstrates how your phone could be used to check your cholesterol levels, no visit to the lab required. In a paper published in the medical technology journal... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2013-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Chinese Publisher in New York

While George Zhu, founder of CN Times Books, the newly launched U.S. subsidiary of Beijing Mediatime Books, is impressed by the “professionalism” of U.S. publishing, he’s also surprised by American inefficiency. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holiday Catalogs Data and Top 15 Cities, Per Popular iPad App

The turn-the-page Web catalog—tested widely in the 2000s as an alternative to e-commerce sites—once looked like an emerging shopping platform led by now-defunct tech providers such as RichFX. But the concept died on the proverbial vine. With the massive proliferation of tablets, however, the... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Census available now

The Bookseller's Digital Census is now available for purchase by non-subscribers, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publishers' year: hits and misses of 2013

Publishers choose their books of the year, and the ones that got awayRobin Robertson Deputy publishing director, Jonathan CapeThe book that made my year: Many years ago, I was sitting in Blake's bar in Enniskillen with John McGahern and he recommended an American novel from the 60s, written by... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Census shows sales still growing

The Bookseller's Digital Census, the annual tracker of how the book business is managing the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein dies aged 77

Publisher who helped break down legal barriers against pornography dies in Brooklyn after long battle with illness Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reality Check: Mobile Ads Have a Way to Go

The mobile ad world has become one of haves and have nots. The Wall Street Journal concentrates on the haves, the platforms like Facebook, but the world of publishers isn’t so luckily.The post Reality Check: Mobile Ads Have a Way to Go appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Personalised audio for SourceBooks' Put Me in the Story app

Sourcebooks' Put Me in the Story personalised-book series has launched a new 'universal... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comixology Brings French Digital Comics to U.S., Canada

Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is releasing 700 French comics in the North American marketplace. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebyline Launches Pitch Board to Better Connect Seasoned Freelancers and Publishers

It can be hard out there for a freelancer. The avalanche of emails, stiff competition, low pay and ignored invoices all make it a real challenge. That’s why Ebyline, a conduit between digital publishers and writers, works to connect tho ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DC Releases a Choose Your Own Adventure-Style Digital Comic About Batman

If you loved choose your own adventure books as a child - the ones where you had to turn to page 34 to ride the unicorn or page 75 to enter the Cave of Time - you may find the narrative format of the latest DC Comics digital graphic novel familiar. Today, DC launched Batman: Arkham ...     Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Times publisher reports pre-tax losses of £24m

Times Newspapers Limited pays out £14m to departing directors, including chief executive Tom MockridgeThe publisher of the Times and the Sunday Times has reported a pre-tax loss of £24m, as payouts to departing directors hit £14m, according to financial filings for the year to 30 June 2013.Times... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus to publish fourth book in Larsson's Millennium series

Quercus will publish a fourth book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, to be written by... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sun publisher posts £75m pre-tax loss

News Group Newspapers took charges related to the phone-hacking scandal of almost £90m in the year to 30 JuneThe parent company of the Sun and Sun on Sunday has reported a pre-tax loss of £75m in the year to 30 June, after taking charges of almost £90m in relation to the phone-hacking... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookstores and self-published authors are increasingly teaming up

Previously, independent bookstores tended to stay away from marketing self-published authors, but in the age of Amazon, some are embracing local authors no matter how they released their work. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apollinaire publisher on trial in Turkey

Turkish publisher and translator of French writer's Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan accused of corrupting public moralityA publisher and a translator are to go on trial in Istanbul for corrupting public morality – for publishing a book written more than 100 years ago.Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK Startups Celebrate Innovation at Impromptu Digital Xmas Fair

On short notice, a dozen of the UK's top startups hosted the first Digital Publishing Xmas Fair, celebrating London's burgeoning entrepreneurial community. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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